USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some of the most famous Lost Generation writers were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and John Steinbeck.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though first intended to denote Americans brought to Europe by the First World War, the “Lost Generation” refers to writers and other artists from the United States who took up residence in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. The words themselves were first attributed to Gertrude Stein by Ernest Hemingway.

Detailed explanation-3: -The loss of faith in traditional values and ideals led many who came of age during World War I to become hedonistic, rebellious, and aimless-“lost.” This cynicism and disillusionment defined the literary and creative landscape of the 1920s.

Detailed explanation-4: -all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.” Hemingway thus credits the phrase to Stein, who was then his mentor and patron. The 1926 publication of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises popularized the term; that novel serves to epitomize the post-war expatriate generation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lost Generation writers revealed the sordid nature of the shallow, frivolous lives of the young and independently wealthy in the aftermath of the war.