Afloat - 9781548236731

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...

• | Author: Guy de Maupassant
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jun 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 62 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 154823673X
• | ISBN-13: 9781548236731