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Afloat
Guy de Maupassant
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Painters are of less value, although still rather sought after. They are not so divine and more Bohemian. Their manners are less courteous and above all not sufficiently sublime. They often replace inspiration by broad jests and silly puns. They carry with them too much of the perfume of the studio, and those who by dint of watchfulness have managed to get rid of it, only exchange on. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
"Two short books in a row, this one barely one hundred pages!" Well, I'm trying to close the gap on Doug. Even reading can be a competitive sport. Moreover, it is Guy de Maupassant, for Heaven's sake! Must I apologize for reading him, however brief the book? And what a book it is. This purports to b
I have just reread with great pleasure Guy de Maupassant's compact logbook Afloat, which purports to chronicle nine days aboard his yacht Bel-Ami in spring 1887, as he and his two-man crew set sail from Antibes. However, the title is a bit misleading as, thanks to the weather, Maupassant spends more
This is part of a collection of odd short stories that I had never read before - the most interesting aspect of all of them is that the ending is always rather mysterious and unlike the untying of the knot which readers tend to expect (or at least used to expect at the time when Maupassant was writi
Maupassant, I wish you’d sunk this time into writing more stories instead of being a pretentious prick.
Gran Coup de Coeur por este pequeño libro de apenas 160 páginas. Un corto periplo, a bordo de un pequeño navío por la costa del sur de Francia, en el que los pensamientos de Maupassant son los principales protagonistas.
El escritor, mecido por las olas y el viento e inspirado por el paisaje que lo r
Despite having a read many short stories by Guy de Maupassant (never one of the novels), the first thing I tend to think about when Maupassant is called to mind is Max Ophüls' 1952 anthology film LE PLAISIR, which adapts three of the esteemed 19th century writer's stories, one after the other. I thi
Un relato muy corto, pero lo que he disfrutado con ese principio...more
"Я один, в самом деле один, в самом деле свободен!" - дневник свободного человека, отдыхающего от всего на яхте, на воде. Легкий морской бриз относит прочь суету и мелочность мира, приземленность и озабоченность своей персоной.
Очищенный от всего этого, повествователь рассуждает о вечном: о преклоне
This is an odd, half-hearted sort of book which purports to be one thing and shades into another. At first, we are presented with Guy de Maupassant as amateur captain of a sailboat named the Bel-Ami, after his most popular novel. He complains about being forced to be a sociable human being, yet for