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...

Médias	Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé	21 juin 2017
ISBN13	9781548227722
Éditeurs	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	80
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 4 mm · 117 g
Langue et grammaire	Anglais