The Lost Generation
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The Lost Generation was a generation of American writers’ whose work had evolved after WW1. The term “The Lost Generation” had come from a woman named Gertrude Stein, who was a modernist writer, when she had made a comment towards author Ernest Hemingway. The term had described the people who had rebelled against the after-WW1 ideals. The people who were the writers and artists of The Lost Generation. This generation believed in sophistication and culture, when America at the time was all for entrepreneurship and the value of a strong work ethic. The beliefs of The lost Generation had been adopted after the many deaths of the WW1 soldiers. The Lost Generation had taken on a new role as the distanced generation.
Earnest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises Gertrude Stein
Hedonism- The Lost Generation had seeked pleasure elsewhere, mainly in Europe for inspiration.
Intolerance- The Lost Generation did not want to except the beliefs of values of America after the WW1.
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The Lost Generation had been the generation to travel out to places like Europe for inspiration.
They longed for a more cosmopolitan life-style.
The Lost generation had shared similar writing themes.
Focused on Paris as a literary inspiration.
People of this era who could be considered a part of The Lost Generation:
F. Scott Fitzgerald John Dos Passos
E. E. Cummings Hart Crane
Focused on Paris as a literary inspiration.
People of this era who could be considered a part of The Lost Generation:
F. Scott Fitzgerald John Dos Passos
E. E. Cummings Hart Crane
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