Afloat

ISBN-13: 9781590172599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 120 str.

Guy De Maupassant

Opis

"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.