안은진 강예린 The Writers of the “Lost Generation”
Index 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. Earnest Hemingway 4. John Dos Passos 6. Cummings & Hart Crane Lost Generation 1. Time background 5. William Faulkner
1.Time background
①American urbanization & Economy growth The United States becoming an urban-majority nation between 1910 and 1920.
② World war Ⅰ In World war 1 drew in all the world's economic great powers
③ The Great Depression In 1929–1933 the economy was destabilized by bank failures.
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lost generation = lost their American Ideals
The side of paradise His first novel Describes new generation Flappers and Philosophers Tales of the jazz age His short stories about early 20C The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is the best known of these stories. 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great gatsby natural goodness of money symbolism with psychological realism music and the guests give ‘symbolic glow’ Symbolic tragedy describes the lost generation after moral and economic collapse. 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Earnest Hemingway
Spoke Lost generation Stay in Paris and become a writer Simply style Stoicism
The sun also rises His first novel Portrait of young adults in the post-war era ‘Expatriates’ In our time Men without women Mix psychological realism with symbolism Very easy to read 3. Earnest Hemingway
A farewell to arms Anti-war love story Nature symbolically Plain image of war and death To have and have not For whom the bell tolls Lose freshness Deep idea into moral system Union with nature and the earth 3. Earnest Hemingway
The old man and the sea Heroism, stoicism and ceremony Beautiful allegory of human life Sign of true heroism Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature 3. Earnest Hemingway
4. John Dos Passos
the modern, past-war world as ugly and dirty Only art, and the invention of new artistic style(modernism) More symbolic than real Fast-moving and unemotional Used large numbers of characters to represent an entire nation
4. John Dos Passos One Man’s Initiation – 1917 (1920) The first American novel ( World War 1) Filled with hatred for all war Three Soldiers (1921) Less personal Has a broader More historical view
4. John Dos Passos The 42 nd Parallel (1930) Great excitement in Europe and America The first volume of his great “U.S.A” trilogy To show how individuals are part of the history the age
5. William Faulkner
used a rather small number of characters Shared two things with the Lost Generation 1- its strong dislike for the post-war world 2- its belief in the value of art “continuous present” style
5. William Faulkner Soldiers’ Pay (1926) His first novel About a wounded soldier who returns have to the “ wasteland” of past-war society Mosquitoes (1927) His second novel A rather dull tale about artists and art loves in New Orleans in the twenties
5. William Faulkner The sound and the Fury (1929) One of his “modernist” masterpieces Tell the tragic story of the Compson family from four different points of view Many of the experimental features
6. Cummings &Hart Crane
6. Cummings the most joyful poet of the Lost Generation Loved to break the traditional poem into unusual bits and pieces Some of his book titles are not even real words
6. Cummings The Enormous Room (1922) His first work (novel about the war) Attack both war and government
6. Hart Crane important Lost Generation poet Give us a direct message Talking about feelings which cannot be understood intellectually Use words for their musical qualities more than for their meaning
6. Hart Crane The Bridge (1930) An epic of American life A symbol of the relationship between man and God The bridge unites the American nation