Lost Generation refers to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. Significant members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, John Dos Passos, and T. S. Eliot. The coining of the phrase is traditionally attributed to Gertrude Stein^[1] and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises and his memoir A Moveable Feast. Lost Generation is a term that refers to the generation of young people coming of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I. It may also refer to: The Lost Generation (album), a 1996 album by Shyheim The Lost Generation (book), a 2006 biographical book written... It has been suggested that List of visitor attractions in Paris be merged into this article or section. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Sherwood Anderson in 1933. ... Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 - March 8, 1970) was an American painter, born in Bangor, Maine. ... John Rodrigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 — September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. ... Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 29, 1946) was an American writer and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A Moveable Feast is also the title of a live album by Fairport Convention A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway. ...

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. 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, named after 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. Broadly, the term is often used to refer to the younger literary modernists. Generation (From the Greek γιγνμαι), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is someone temporarily or permanently in a country and culture other than that of their upbringing and/or legal residence. ... Modernist literature is the literary form of Modernism and especially High modernism; it should not be confused with modern literature, which is the history of the modern novel and modern poetry as one. ...

A recent common language usage for Lost Generation is for people born within the "cusp" between generations, as divisions between the generations are ambiguous.

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 of their elders and ambivalent about 19th-century gender ideals. Like most attempts to stereotype entire generations, this over-generalization is true for some individuals of the generation and not true of others. It was somewhat common among people of this group to complain that American artistic culture lacked the sophistication of European work—leading many members to spend large amounts of time in Europe—and/or that all topics worth treating in a literary work had already been covered. Nevertheless, this selfsame period saw a great increase of American literature and in art, which is now often considered to include some of the greatest literary classics produced by American writers^{[citation needed]}. This "generation" was also involved with the beginning of jazz music. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ...

Legacy

At the turn of the 21st century, a fresh cadre of expatriate writers led by such emerging authors as D.A. Blyler (Steffi's Club) and Arthur Phillips (Prague) asserted a new "Lost Generation" among readers, paying homage to their literary peers of 1920s Paris (see External links). D.A. Blyler (born July 13, 1967) is the author of the expatriate novel Steffi’s Club (BurnhillWolf, 2003) and two published works of poetry, Shared Solitude and Diary of a Seducer (a collaboration with painter and filmmaker Marcus Reichert). ... Arthur Phillips (born April 23, 1969, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American novelist active in the 21st century. ...

Popular culture

• The 1988 film The Moderns locates itself in 1926 Paris during the period of the Lost Generation.
• the novel It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is about the Lost Generation and discusses in length the meaning of the term.

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Notes

1. ^ 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.

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See also

• Social issues of the 1920s

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External links

• Prague by Arthur Phillips.
• Steffi's Club by D.A. Blyler.
• A look at the Lost Generation