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Afloat (New York Review Books Classics) | 
| Author: Guy De Maupassant
Creator: Douglas Parmee
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 281575
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590172590
Dewey Decimal Number: 848.803
EAN: 9781590172599
ASIN: 1590172590
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 Afloat June 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a sailor I read this little book like reading a yacht's log book. The device is fresh and alive. Much of how he wrote it captures the feeling of being with him on that yacht with the wind taking Guy, you and a wide range of thoughts anywhere on a whim. You are always brought back to the "Bel-Ami" itself to move forward-book as yacht. It has been said that to understand the French you had to read Guy de Maupassant. Well, to understand the spirit of the sailing life it doesn't hurt to read him either. Delightful.
 Maupassant's Diary April 28, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Afloat" does not resemble anything else written by Maupassant. It is a true story (as indicated at the end) and is based on his personal travel. It has some amusing descriptions of the French Reviera and Monaco, but also contains some grim philosophical thoughts that explain some things about Maupassant, not the least of which is why he ended up in a mental hospital.
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