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ISBN10: 1548227722
ISBN13: 9781548227722
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 21 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781548227722
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 21 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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...
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