Le récit fantastique de Maupassant en tant que “Opera Aperta”
The Fantastic Stories of Maupassant as "Opera Aperta"

Summary/Abstract: The structure of Maupassant's narratives is based upon a common theme - fear - and on a concentration around the final effect. The writer favors an open closing, the reader being invited to return to the first reading. The contrast between the open endings, predisposed to the pursuit of the narrative core, and the events referring to the closing state, experienced by the characters and the narrator himself is not accidental. The closure and the opening act within the composition of the narrative, but also within the imaginary fantasy of the writer. Maupassant avoids the explanation of the events that occur and his characters are confronted with places of closure, by which the existence is confirmed as an enigma. The reality that surrounds them thus favors a sexualized reading, where the ending neighbors with the opening and the mysterious presence, Maupassant's characters discovering several closures which posed themselves as challenges or which, on the contrary, represent possibilities of greeting in relation to a threatening exterior.

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