The Lost Generation is a term used to describe those who came
of age during World War I. This term more specifically refers to a group of
American writers whose works
were published after that period. The term Lost Generation comes from a comment
that Modernist writer Gertrude Stein made to author Ernest Hemingway.
The
Lost Generation rebelled against post-World War I American materialism. Their
faith in the moral ideals that had earlier given them hope was “lost”. They found
themselves disillusioned with post-war American society during the 1920s, often
settling in Paris where they pursued more artistically liberated lifestyles.
In
literature, the "Lost Generation" refers to a group of writers and poets who were men and
women of that period. The most famous members were Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot.
