Afloat
By: Guy de Maupassant ; translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parme.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781590172599
Subjects: Riviera (France) -- Description and travel
Work titles: Sur l'eau.
Description: "Afloat 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, polemic, and documentation in a wholly original manner. 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 - at once happily and precariously - afloat."

"Afloat courts risk in both form and content, making itself up as it goes along. As a work of art, it is as fresh and startling as the paintings of Maupassant's great contemporaries van Gogh and Gauguin."--Jacket.