Alexandra Rustrian

    GENERAL COMMENT: The day I got lost was a easly lecture, a form to enjoy the reading and improve the comprehension and the vocabulary. Is a lecture where we can understand everything and analyse the context without problem. In that story we can be reflect there because is about something that is happen in the real life.

The Necklace By: Guy de Maupassant. Biography: Guy de Maupassant Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant, better known as Guy de Maupassant, who boned in France 5 August 1859, was a french writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and he was a representative of the naturalist, his stories are charaqcterized by economy of style and efficient. he wrote some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volumen of verse. His first published story "Ball of Fall" in 1880, os often considered his masterpiece. Despiste his wealth and popularity, Maupassant never married, partly out of fear of being abandoned by loved one as he abandoned with death. Hia afection with syphilis contributed to his growing dementia, and he was intitutionalized after he tried to kill himself in 1891. He died two years later, on July 6, 1893. Historical Background: “The Necklace,” or “La Parure” in French, first appeared in the Parisian Newspaper Le Gau

The Washwoman By: Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Isaac Singer was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. He was a writer of novels, short stories, and essays in Yiddish. in 1950, he published his first major novel, The Family Moskat. Then he wrote a collection of short stories, including “Gimpel The Fool” and “The Spinoza of Market Street”. One of the greatest achievement was when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He received a traditional Jewish education at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary. His older brother was the novelist I.J. Singer and his sister the writer Esther Kreytman (Kreitman). 1925 was the year when he published the story “In Old Age”, his first novel, Satan in Goray, was published in Poland.  His most important novels are The Family Moskat (1950), The Magician of Lublin (1960), and The Slave (1962). During the 1960s, he worked in his most important work from the time; A Love Story, that is about the emotional

“The storyteller of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social and political ideals. Nonetheless, it is also true that the serious writer of our time must be deeply concerned about the problems of his generation.”  —Isaac Bashevis Singer The day I got lost  By: Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography: Isaac Beshavis Singer: Isaac Singer was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. In 1950, he published his first major novel, The Family Moskat. Afterward, he wrote a string of acclaimed short stories, including "Gimpel The Fool." In the 1960s, he wrote the "The Spinoza of Market Street." In 1978, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued writing until shortly before his death, on July 24, 1991, in Surfside, Florida.  Despite his success in journalism, Singer's passion for literature would not be suppressed. Soon, he started writing short stories