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The 'Lost Generation' is a phrase made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway in his first published novel The Sun Also Rises. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. The Sun Also Rises is the first major Novel by Ernest Hemingway. [1] Often it is used to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe, some after military service in the First World War. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Figures identified with the "Lost Generation" include authors and poets Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, and John Dos Passos. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24 1896 – December 21 1940 was an American writer of Novels and Short stories, whose works are evocative of the Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate Sherwood Anderson (September 13 1876 &ndash March 8 1941 was an American writer mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg Ohio Waldo Peirce ( December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter, born in Bangor Maine. John Roderigo Dos Passos ( January 14, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1970) was an American Novelist and artist

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Origin of the term

The coining of the phrase is sometimes attributed to Gertrude Stein[2] and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises and his memoir A Moveable Feast. Gertrude Stein ( February 3, 1874 &ndash July 27, 1946) was an American Writer who spent most of her life in France Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. The Sun Also Rises is the first major Novel by Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate In the latter, he explained, "I tried to balance Miss Stein's quotation from the garage owner with one from Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes (often abbreviated Ecc) (קֹהֶלֶת Kohelet, variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Göhalath, Koheles, Koheleth " (A few lines after, recalling the risks and losses of the war, he adds, "I thought of Miss Stein and Sherwood Anderson and egotism and mental laziness versus discipline and I thought who is calling who a lost generation?")

It also refers to the time period from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. More generally, the term is used for the generation of young people coming of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I. Generation (from the Greek γενεά) also known as procreation, is the act of producing Offspring. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For this reason, the generation is sometimes known as the World War I Generation. In Europe, they are most often known as the Generation of 1914, for the year World War I began. In France, the country in which many expatriates settled, they are sometimes called the Génération du Feu, the Generation of Fire. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing Broadly, the term is often used to refer to the younger literary modernists. Modernist literature is the literary form of Modernism and especially High modernism; it should not be confused with modern literature, which is the history

Traits

The "Lost Generation" was said to be disillusioned by the large number of casualties of the First World War, cynical, disdainful of the notions of morality and propriety held by their elders, and ambivalent about 19th-Century gender ideals. Like most attempts to stereotype entire generations, this generalization may have been true for some individuals and not for others. Generally speaking, the term refers specifically to the expatriates/bohemians/artists of that particular time/location, and thus is generally used only to describe a specific (if socially elite) group of people within their larger generation.

It was somewhat popular among certain privileged people of this generation to spend large amounts of time in Europe, to complain that all topics worth treating in a literary work had already been covered, and to argue that American artistic culture lacked the sophistication of Europe. This "generation" was also involved with the beginning of jazz. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States

Popular culture

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Notes

  1. ^ Hemingway Ernest. The 1920s was the rise of a variety of social issues amidst a rapidly changing world The sun also rises, 13.  
  2. ^ As described by Hemingway in the chapter "Une Generation Perdue," of A Moveable Feast, the term was coined by the owner of the Paris garage where Gertrude Stein took her Model T Ford, and was picked up and translated by her. A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and also the Flivver) was an Automobile produced by Henry Ford 's Ford

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