Afloat - Guy de Maupassant - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781547000838 - May 29, 2017
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Afloat

Guy de Maupassant

Afloat

Afloat, originally published as Sur l'eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly original style. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences, and thoughts on life, love, art, nature, and society all find a place in Maupassant's pages, which are, in conception and in effect, so many reflections of the fluid sea on which he finds himself-happily but forever precariously-afloat. Afloat is thus a book that in both content and form courts risk while setting out to chart the meaning, and limits, of freedom, a book that makes itself up as it goes along and in doing so proves as startling and compellingly vital as the paintings of Maupassant's contemporaries van Gogh and Gauguin.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 29, 2017
ISBN13 9781547000838
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 80
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   117 g
Language English  

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