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Revisited<\/a> is a new series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. For the first edition, Sloane Crosley revisits Guy de Maupassant\u2019s story \u201cThe Necklace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Illustration by Gil Blas, 1893.<\/p><\/div>\n

In order to discover Guy de Maupassant, I had to read James Joyce first, which is logical only in the sense that you have to fly over Ireland to get to France. As far as I can tell, James Joyce has little to do with Guy de Maupassant. There are some loose parallels between the story \u201cClay<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Necklace<\/a>\u201d (beautiful woman entrenched in tedium simmers with frustration), both gentleman had solid mustaches, and both had syphilis. But the last is a condition that hardly qualifies as bonding fodder; syphilis is the dead-male-writer equivalent of spelling your name correctly on the SATs. And yet, thanks to a sinfully underqualified eighth-grade English teacher, these two authors are inextricably linked in my memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, she made a mess of Dubliners<\/em>. Her analysis of \u201cThe Dead\u201d? Sad. Snowy. Next. \u201cEveline\u201d? Train travel. Ladies. Next. If there is a difference between distillation and laziness, that class was the measurement. Maybe this lady just had somewhere else to be. Maybe a tryst in the teacher\u2019s lounge, ripping HANG IN THERE<\/small> kitten posters from the wall with her fingernails. I mean, eighth-grade English probably leaves something to be desired for the people who teach it. All I know is that she rushed through the story discussions at a speed that surprised even the juvenile delinquents among us. It was her analysis of \u201cAraby\u201d that really did me in. \u201cAraby\u201d is the story of boy with a crush on an older girl. He tells her he\u2019ll be attending a county fair, she responds by asking him for a souvenir. Thrilled by the errand, he finally finds the perfect gift. But when the woman running the stall smiles at him and offers to help, he says no, thank you, and walks away.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you see,\u201d concluded my teacher, \u201csometimes these Joyce stories have no meaning and that\u2019s the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was most definitely not the point. Maybe if you\u2019re an amateur nihilist employed by the public-school system, it\u2019s the point. But any bunch of teenagers in the world with unrequited crushes on each other will understand that story: When the woman manning the stall turns on the charm, our hero realizes that his actual crush was only being polite, not flirtatious. The flame is extinguished, replaced by the smoke of embarrassment. I had not yet seen Annie Hall<\/em>, but if I had, I would have wished James Joyce to walk into the classroom and reenact the Marshall McLuhan<\/a> scene. \u201cAraby\u201d immediately became precious to me, this little literary object that needed protecting. (Ah, the hubris of the teenage mind\u2014fear not, James, I\u2019ll save you!) So when the syllabus called for the mauling of some French guy named Guy de Maupassant, I worried.<\/p>\n

For the first time in my life, I read ahead. I started with \u201cThe Necklace\u201d (because it was shorter), followed by the chilling \u201cBoule de Suif.\u201d I remember being shocked by the endings of both, by their almost unbearably perfect twists. I remember the pages themselves, the size of them. I like to think I remember the font, though I almost certainly don\u2019t. But I can still see myself, sitting on my bed, agape, feeling as if I had just witnessed a magic trick. I read \u201cThe Necklace\u201d again. I had the urge to keep the Maupassant stories for myself, to figure them out on my own, to let their author speak directly to me. Why, that sly poster-tearing minx. She turned out to be one of the best teachers I\u2019d ever had. She forced me to fall in love with stories despite her unabashed disinterest in them.<\/p>\n

Her analysis of \u201cBoule de Suif?\u201d Prostitution. War.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll take it from here, thanks.<\/p>\n

As an adult, my issue is that the power these stories\u2014and that of \u201cThe Necklace\u201d in particular\u2014is fading. Part of this is because time passes and first loves fade. But it\u2019s also because of the choices I\u2019ve made. For the past few years, I have thought about little else. I used \u201cThe Necklace\u201d as inspiration for a novel. I took it apart, turned it around and linked it back together. The main characters of The Clasp<\/em> follow a chain of false goals, just like the semisympathetic heroine of \u201cThe Necklace.\u201d Then, just to really grind my first impressions of the story into the dirt, I did a bunch of interviews about it in which I swapped remembrance for recounting. I spoke about this object that had meant so much to me until it meant nothing at all. Naturally, I was okay with this exchange. I got a whole book out of it. Plenty of other fish to fetishize.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It took a chance reading of another short story to rescue it. During a January snowstorm, I stumbled across Issac Babel\u2019s \u201cGuy de Maupassant.\u201d For a person who walks around claiming to be such a Maupassant fanatic, it\u2019s a little ridiculous that I had never read this story. It\u2019s about a young man in Russia who seduces a rich benefactor by translating Maupassant and then comes home to read about the gruesome end of the man himself (the VD was the least horrifying aspect of Maupassant death). Sex. Society. French things. Sure, it molested all of those bases. But the story is really about the fine line between life and death, between high art and total crap. \u201cA phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.\u201d Reading \u201cGuy de Maupassant\u201d took me back to the pure love I felt for the short stories I read as a teenager, well before it occurred to me to co-opt one of them for my own fiction.<\/p>\n

After I finished the Babel story, I walked across the room, pulled an anthology off the shelf, and flipped to \u201cThe Necklace.\u201d I read it\u2014really read it\u2014as if I had never read it before. Vanity. Loss. Paris. Actually, not a terrible interpretation.<\/p>\n

Sloane Crosley\u2019s novel<\/em>\u00a0The Clasp<\/a>\u00a0is out in paperback this month<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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