USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The disillusionment that grew out of the war contributed to the emergence of modernism, a genre which broke with traditional ways of writing, discarded romantic views of nature and focused on the interior world of characters.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the War, a general sense of purposelessness and defeat led to a movement both in modernism and in anti-authoritarianism and nihilism in literature and in art. A sense of separation between the artist and writer and the general public was created during this time.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was followed by Hemingway’s first major novels, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, which chronicle, in reverse order, Hemingway’s experiences in war and postwar Europe. The Sun Also Rises features Jake Barnes, an American World War I veteran whose mysterious combat wounds have caused him to be impotent.