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 21, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 78 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1548227722
- | ISBN-13: 9781548227722