| Afloat Contributor(s): de Maupassant, Guy (Author), Parmée, Douglas (Translator), Parmée, Douglas (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590172590 ISBN-13: 9781590172599 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 848.803 |
| LCCN: 2007029777 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.04" W x 7.94" (0.33 lbs) 120 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. |