Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'eau [Afloat]

Peter Cogman (University of Southampton)

Ed. by David Williams, University of Sheffield
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1888

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Guidebooks / Travel writing

Resources

Maupassant's Travel Writing: Sur l'eau [Afloat], Au soleil [Under the Sun] and La Vie errante [The Wandering Life]

Nineteenth-century French writers (Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Nerval, Flaubert in his letters) had frequently used a Mediterranean journey as material for a travel narrative. Always keen to maximise the profit from his writings, Maupassant exploited the journeys he made – for pleasure or for medical reasons as well as on journalistic missions – notably those to the Mediterranean: the South of France, Italy and Sicily, North Africa. These provided material for newspaper articles, later reworked in book form. The final book version is often misleadingly presented: Sur …

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Citation: Cogman, Peter. "Sur l'eau". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 May 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12359, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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