Ernest Hemingway : the Spokesman of “Lost Generation”
Abstract : In The1920s, the most striking phenomenon in American literature is the advent of the Lost Generation. This generation have exerted a profound influence on the American literature and the future generation in America. This paper mainly analysis the Lost generation in the reprentative works of Hemingway, the spokesman of the Lost Generation, by exploring the social background of its emergence and Hemingway’s life.
Key words : Lost Generation; Hemingway, World War I; 上环后注意事项disillusionment; The Sun Also Ris; A Farewell to Arms
Introduction of the Lost Generation
Lost Generation, in general, the post-World War I generation, but specially a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established永远永远爱你 their literary reputation in the 1920s. The term stems from a remark made by传的成语开头 Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway,“You are all a lost generation.” Hemingway ud it as an epigraph to The Sun Also Ris(1
926) . Becau of this novel's popularity, the term, "The Lost Generation" is the enduring term that has stayed associated with writers of the 1920's.
It originally included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut off from the old values
and yet unable to come to terms with the new era when civilization had gone mad. It means this generation had lost the beautiful n of the calm idyllic past. Stein’s comment suggests the ambiguous and pointless lives of expatriates as they aimlessly wandered about the Continent, drinking9001, making love, and traveling from place to place and from party to party. The activities em to justify their arch for new meanings to replace the old ones. Yet in fact, being cut off from their past, disillusioned in reality, and without a meaningful future to fall on, they were lost in disillusionment and existential voids. They indulged in hedonism in order to make their life less unbearable. The Lost Generation was comprid of American exiles who had spurned the pre-war val
ues of love, romanticism, 专题演讲optimism, prosperity and hope that they had grown up believing in, all shattered by the war, and as well as the glitter and potential of the Great Boom of the 1920's, which they saw as American and money-bad, and therefore corrupt and insincere. Unable to reconcile小班教案反思 themlves with their past beliefs, and unwilling to accept tho of their prent mainstream society, the Lost Generation was left morally bankrupt and spiritually sterile, with only the fleeting pleasures of alcohol and xual promiscuity as comfort.
Many Americans in Paris became bohemian writers and artists as a reactionary protest to the business- and consumer-bad culture in the United States. They had a common purpo of trying to understand
what life was all about. They tried to invent a new style of writing which 上海公园would communicate 墨水渍 their thoughts. The writers thus express themlves in pungent, economical poetry and pro.For the Lost Generation, love, hope and religion were for
eign concepts after WWI, replaced by a world of xual liberty and moral indifference. The lounging in the cafes, hopping from one meaningless relationship to the next.and the promiscuity of the generation is very much connected with their traumas from the War. They are suffering from post-traumatic stress and are trying to deal with it. The three best known writers among The Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. Generally, Ernest Hemingway is regarded as spokesman for the Lost Generation.
