Afloat by Guy De Maupassant
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.
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant un ecrivain et journaliste litteraire francais ne le 5 aout 1850 au chateau de Miromesnil a Tourville-sur-Arques (Seine-Inferieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 a Paris. Lie a Gustave Flaubert et a Emile Zola, de Maupassant a marque la litterature francaise par ses six romans.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780720609660 |
| ISBN 10 | 0720609666 |
| Titel | Afloat |
| Autor | Guy De Maupassant |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Peter Owen Publishers |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1995-09-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 190 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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