1. Chater 11. The Writers of the ‘’Lost Generation’’
Professor : Kim Youn-man
Presenter : Kwon Young-eun ( )
Park Sung-ji ( )

2. Contents
Backgrounds
Writers of the Lost Generation
Words
Reference

4. How would you feel right after World War I, if you have undergone it?

5. Lost Generation
A group of American writers who worked after World War I
The Sun Also Rises by E. Hemingway
Gertrude Stein

6. Gertrude Stein
An American writer and thinker who spent most of her life in France
Salon in Paris
Lost Generation
Relationship with Picasso, Hemingway

7. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Sep. 24, 1896 ~ Dec. 21, 1940)
He was born of rich parents⇒But he began to have serious mental and physical health problems with the Great Depression
He describes his works symbolically
His famous works
-The Great Gatsby (1925)
-This Side of Paradise (1920)
-Flappers and Philosophers (1920)
-Tales of Jazz Age (1922)

8. Ernest Hemingway(July 21, 1899 ~ July 2, 1961)
He drove an ambulance in World War I
After war move to Paris
Many countries and change in his works characters
He won the Novel Prize in literature and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
He committed suicide with his favorite hunting gun

9. Hemingway’s Works The Sun also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

10. John Dos Passos (Jan. 14, 1896 – Sep.28, 1970)
He also drove an ambulance during World War I
He thought only art could save the world
He had been influenced by the techniques of the movies

11. Dos Passos’s work and Montagu Techniques
One Man’s Initiation (1920)
-the first American novel about war
Three Soldiers (1921)
Manhattan Transfer (1925)
-the work that describes New York City itself (energy, excitement, and the modern strangeness)
“U.S.A.” trilogy
-The 42and Parallel ,Nineteen Nine teen , and The Big Money (1936)
Montage Techniques

12. Montage Techniques

13. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962)
He divides The Lost Generation: strong dislike people and believe the value of art
He uses the “contiuous present”
He won the Novel Prize in 1949
His Works
-The Sound and the Fury (1929)
-Soldiers Pay (1926)
-Sartoris (1929)
-The Hamlet (1940)

14. e.e. cummings (Oct. 14, 1894 ~ Sep. 3, 1962)
He is the most joyful poet of the Lost Generation in Paris
In Paris he studied writing and painting
He expressed his works’ titles in strange manner
(e.g.) ① & ② is 5 ③ 1 × 1
He hated forces in modern life : politics, the Church, Big Business

15. Spree: A spell or sustained period of unrestrained activity of
a particular kind
Moth: A chiefly nocturnal insect related to the butterflies
Wafer: Fasten or seal (a letter, document, etc.) with a wafer
Hatred: Intense dislike or ill will
Destroy: Completely ruin or spoil (something)
Ruin (someone) emotionally or spiritually

16. Farewell: the same as goodbye
Bribe: A sum of money or other inducement offered or given in this way (in order to persuade him or her to do something. )
Isolation: the state of feeling alone and
without friends or help.
Scar: A scar is a mark on the skin
which is left after a wound has healed.

17. Reference www.google.com www.wikipedia.org

18. Thank you very much