| Afloat Contributor(s): Maupassant, Guy De (Author) |
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ISBN: 154700083X ISBN-13: 9781547000838 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $5.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.26 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |