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• W27451733 abstract "WE ARE OFTEN made to feel that in the world of art and literature we should not like what we like. For example, appreciate the stylish elan of avant-garde filmmaker Jean Luc Godard but the finished elegance of classical Hollywood work such as Billy Wilder's The Apartment strikes me as fuller accomplishment than any one of Godard's films. dutifully teach the fractured and fragmented novels of the great Modernists every year, but in my secret heart often wonder whether the effortless narratives of modest writer like Somerset Maugham (his early South Sea stories, for example) may not have longer shelf-life than that of many of his more vaunted contemporaries. Puccini's melodramatic opera, Tosca, continues to give me goosebumps every time listen to it despite the fact that, according to the more vaunted modern composer, Benjamin Britten, should be sickened by its cheapness and vulgarity. And would be hard-pressed to find piece of music that has meant as much to me as British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's folksy orchestral work, Lark Ascending, work that seems ageless in its simple spirituality. Nevertheless that same piece puts Tim Page, music critic of The Washington Post in mind of a lovely, vapid young woman you're embarrassed to remember you were once in love with. This is the problem with the artists like. It is not that they are that bad, it is just that should have outgrown them long ago. Guy de Maupassant is another of these artists that sometimes feel as if ought not to like as much as do, another example of my petrified literary adolescence. Maupassant, like his devotee Maugham, lacks Modernist cache. His stories are good stories, i.e. plot driven, and they often (though not nearly as often as they are reputed to) finish with O. Henry-like twists, surprises, and revelations, all of which are enormously satisfying to the casual reader, but redolent of Reader's Digest to the sophisticated critic. Maupassant may even be more dangerously accessible than Maugham. master of economy and simplicity, Maupassant writes in short, concise sentences. Consider how he dispatches the wife in Jewels, up to this point the most important character in the story: night in winter when she had been to the Opera, she came home shivering with cold. The next morning she had cough, and week later she died of pneumonia (159). Maupassant's narratives are as swift as his sentences are short. One's attention rarely flags when reading him. It is this simple writing style, presume, that led Amazon.com to list one of Maupassant's volumes of stories as representing seventh-grade level in reading difficulty. As one of my colleagues sniffed when the subject of teaching Maupassant came up, I wouldn't have anything to say. To teach Maupassant, in some people's opinion, is to extend the high school curriculum. Maupassant's stories are like something out of Boy's Life, with little sex thrown in. You might as well show them artwork by Norman Rockwell while you are at it. I'm not sure Maupassant would have been disturbed by this reaction to his work. Like his mentor Flaubert, Maupassant aimed for literature that was, in sense, devoid of content, that built its ideas securely into its form. For this reason he would have taken criticisms that his work is short on ideas, on things to talk about, as high praise, validation of his efforts. Flaubert wrote to George Sand, A writer should never express his opinion. Has God ever expressed his opinion? Maupassant was Naturalist, albeit more lighthearted one than his mentor. If you are going to find the author's point of view in Maupassant's stories you are going to have to look between the lines or trace the sarcasm to its driest spot. It's this that the people at Amazon.com may not realize. There is an outside chance, ironically, that Maupassant's work may be over their heads. One story by Maupassant that particularly like teaching is diminutive one (about four pages) entitled Idyll. …" @default.
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