THE DAY I GOT LOST

“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 on the side. In 1925, he debuted as a fiction writer with the short story "In Old Age." In 1935, Singer's first novel, Satan in Goray, was published.  1950 marked the publication of his first major work, a novel about a family of Jews living in the ghettos of pre–World War II Poland, entitled The Family Moskat. Following its publication, Singer wrote a string of acclaimed short stories. Among them was one of his best-known works, "Gimpel The Fool."

During the 1960s, Singer's work continued to touch on questions of morality. One of his most recognized works from the time was Enemies: A Love Story, about the emotional struggle of a Holocaust survivor. His other important novels during that era included The Manor, The Estate and his memoir, In My Father's Court. His beloved story "The Spinoza of Market Street" also stemmed from this period.

By then a major writer known worldwide, Singer turned toward more contemporary topics in the 1970s. In addition to writing memoirs and his first children's books, he produced the novels The Penitent and Shosha. In 1978, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the 1980s, Singer published The King of the Fields and Scum. He continued writing until he suffered a series of strokes, dying on July 24, 1991, in Surfside, Florida.
  • Historical Background:
That story takes place in Chelm, Poland, and teh character exemplifies the connotation traditionally associated with the name Schelemiel; an ineffectual, inept person who is easily victimized. 
Related based in the real life, and the publication was into 1935 to 1985, time where the short stories written by Isaac, was a similary thing with the reality, into the story don´t give us the real time, specific the context but is necesary don´t forget that the story is a real story, for that reason the author had shoul inspired about the typical story of person´s 60 years old. 

  • Expectations:
I think the story is about a group of people hat get lost into the woods or some mistery place, is a story where the characters are looking for surviving. It is a story that is related by one person who is living the story, on that story the man looks for a new place to survive and have a great nigth, but something is happen, one of the group have an idea, he thinks looks for a new car to go out of that situation. in that moment they start a trip into the woods. they looks a chance to go out. But when they find a car, the story take a new way, because the car is in a haunted big house, and for take the car, they have to go in the house. At the end of the story only one will can survive but he go out so confused and just that was the day he get s lost.
  • Analysis/connection between literary works and historical background:
The story is based in realism, in fact, many thing into the story is related based in the reality, the real fuction of that text is give us teh ralism and things that happen in teh real life. and thinking in the historical background, we can see that story could be happen in any time or year, for taht description the realism give the focus in teh real things and the context could be familiar for us and our life. 


  • Literary movement:

Realism

The realism in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, as well as implausible, exotic and supernatural elements. Is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth Century French literatura,  and Russian literatura and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. 

Literary realism, in contrast to idealism, attempts to represent familiar things as they are. Realist authors chose to depict everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of using a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. Broadly defined as "the representation of reality".


Realism has been prevalent in the arts at many periods, and is in large part a matter of technique and training, and the avoidance of stylization. In the visual arts, illusionistic realism is the accurate depiction of lifeforms, perspective, and the details of light and colour. Realist works of art may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism, or Kitchen sink realism.
  • Country:
That story is a nonfiction relate, because the author is writing about a real history and that genre is refers to a form of redaction, where the story is about the real life and looks show the reality

Nonfiction's specific descriptions may or may not be accurate, and can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question.

Authors of such accounts genuinely believe or claim them to be truthful at the time of their composition or, at least, pose them to a convinced audience as historically or empirically factual. Reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying it is true that people believe them (for such topics as mythology). Nonfiction can also be written about fiction, typically known as literary criticism, giving information and analysis on these other works. Nonfiction need not necessarily be written text, since pictures and film can also purport to present a factual account of a subject.



  • Did you confirm your predictions?

I don´t confirm my predictions, because  story is about a the professor Shlemiel, who has a dilema. Because, he cannot remember where he lives, and when he is in a taxi, he can thinks in where he goes but he doesn´t remember that, he only can remember  that on that day is his birthday, but is imposible to him remember his address. That story is relate don New York City, eventually through a series or event, the profesor is dropped off at payphone when he gets he ends up running into someone that he knows that can help him get home. And finally he go back to home, his wife is so worried fot that situation. But the profesor Shlemiel now is safe at home.

But that reason I don´t  confirm my predictions, the story is completely different that I had imagined.


  • References:

  • Biography.com Editors (2014), Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography.com/The Biography.com website. A&E Television Networks.
  • Google book, Companion to Literature: Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story

Comentarios

Publicar un comentario

Entradas más populares de este blog

Analysis of THE DAY I GOT LOST.

Imagen
    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.
Leer más

THE WASHWOMAN

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
Leer más

THE NECKLACE

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
Leer más