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The Lost Generation. Jamar Boyd. Beginning of an era.
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The Lost Generation Jamar Boyd
Beginning of an era Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, a number of intellectuals, poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years. Paris was the center of it all. American poet Gertrude Stein actually coined the expression “lost generation." Speaking to Ernest Hemingway, she said, "you are all a lost generation." The term stuck and the mystique surrounding these individuals continues to fascinate us. Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date.
Authors of the era F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway John Dos Passos Sherwood Anderson Kay Boyle Hart Crane Ford Maddox Ford Zelda Fitzgerald
The Leader Ernest Hemingway was the Lost Generation's leader in the adaptation of the naturalistic technique in the novel. Hemingway volunteered to fight with the Italians in World War I and his Midwestern American ignorance was shattered during the resounding defeat of the Italians by the Central Powers at Caporetto. Newspapers of the time reported Hemingway, with dozens of pieces of shrapnel in his legs, had heroically carried another man out. That episode even made the newsreels in America. These war time experiences laid the groundwork of his novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929). Another of his books, The Sun Also Rises (1926) was a naturalistic and shocking expression of post-war disillusionment.
Who are these men? Majority of these talented individuals were once American soldiers. Who after WWI decided to leave the U.S and live and flourish in France where they could display their talent. Which at the time in America had not yet been accepted nor revealed.
Works of Fitzgerald • The Great Gasby • Short Stories of Scott Fitzgerald • Tender is the Night • Pat Hobby Stories • Beautiful and the Damned • The Crack Up
Works of Hemingway • A Farewell to Arms • For Whom The Bell Tolls • Sun Also Rises • A Moveable Feast • Islands In the Stream
Works of Dos Passos • Manhattan Transfer: A Novel • Three Soldiers • Streets of Night • The Big Money • The 42nd Parallel
Quotes of Hemingway • A man can be destroyed but not defeated. • About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. • All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. • As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
Quotes of Fitzgerald • Action is character. • After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. • Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. • Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
Quotes of Dos Passos • A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. • People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them • Sex is a slotmachine. • We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
