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Afloat

Afloat

de Maupassant, Guy
Parmée, Douglas
Parmée, Douglas

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1590172590
ISBN13: 9781590172599
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Apr 29 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.94
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. 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.

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