is "The little prince" fable, a novel, a fairy tale, how does it deviate from other genre ?

Question

whyd the author use such genreswhat is the empitus behind writing this story, and how does this reflect the author's society and state of mind?
-I'm writing an essay about this

Answer 1

I read "The Little Prince" as a novel years ago and it impressed me. It deviates from the other genre, I think, the author experimented his narrative style via the thought/speaking articulation against his immediate environments. There's one inspiring thing the Prince said that we're in a shell of life, that is, we all depart from the shell when the time comes. In other words, we all die and leave the shell, the physical/mental body. It's simple like that.