Editing Lost Generation (section)

==In literature==
[[File:GertrudeStein JackHemingway Paris.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|[[Gertrude Stein]] with [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s son [[Jack Hemingway|Jack]] in 1924. Stein is credited with bringing the term "Lost Generation" into use.]]

In his memoir ''[[A Moveable Feast]]'' (1964), published after Hemingway's and Stein's deaths, [[Ernest Hemingway]] writes that [[Gertrude Stein]] heard the phrase from a French garage owner who serviced Stein's car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car quickly enough, the garage owner shouted at the young man, "You are all a {{'-}}''génération perdue''{{'}}."{{r|hemingway|page=29}} While telling Hemingway the story, Stein added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are&nbsp;... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation."{{r|hemingway|page=29}} Hemingway thus credits the phrase to Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mellow |first=James R. |title=Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company |date=1991 |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |isbn=978-0-395-47982-7 |location=New York |page=273}}</ref>

The 1926 publication of Hemingway's ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' popularized the term; that novel serves to epitomize the post-war expatriate generation.{{r|mellow1992|page=302}} However, Hemingway later wrote to his editor [[Max Perkins]] that the "point of the book" was not so much about a generation being lost, but that "the earth abideth forever".{{r|baker|page=82}} Hemingway believed the characters in ''The Sun Also Rises'' may have been "battered" but were not lost.{{r|baker|page=82}}

Consistent with this ambivalence, Hemingway employs "Lost Generation" as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel. In ''A Moveable Feast'', Hemingway writes, "I tried to balance Miss Stein's quotation from the garage owner with one from [[Ecclesiastes]]." A few lines later, recalling the risks and losses of the war, he adds: "I thought of Miss Stein and [[Sherwood Anderson]] and egotism and mental laziness versus discipline and I thought 'who is calling who a lost generation?{{'"}}{{r|hemingway|pages=29–30}}

===Themes===
[[File:Underwoodfive.jpg|thumb|[[Typewriter]]s entered common use as a writing tool for the Lost Generation]]

The writings of the Lost Generation literary figures often pertained to the writers' experiences in [[World War I]] and the years following it. It is said that the work of these writers was autobiographical based on their use of mythologized versions of their lives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and the Lost Generation: An Interview with Kirk Curnutt {{!}} The Hemingway Project |url=http://www.thehemingwayproject.com/hemingway-the-fitzgeralds-and-the-lost-generation-an-interview-with-kirk-curnutt/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329202009/http://www.thehemingwayproject.com/hemingway-the-fitzgeralds-and-the-lost-generation-an-interview-with-kirk-curnutt/ |archive-date=29 March 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |website=www.thehemingwayproject.com}}</ref> One of the themes that commonly appear in the authors' works is decadence and the frivolous lifestyle of the wealthy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lost Generation {{!}} Great Writers Inspire |url=https://writersinspire.org/content/lost-generation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409171140/http://www.writersinspire.org/content/lost-generation |archive-date=9 April 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |website=writersinspire.org}}</ref> Both Hemingway and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] touched on this theme throughout the novels ''The Sun Also Rises'' and ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''. Another theme commonly found in the works of these authors was the death of the [[American Dream]], which is exhibited throughout many of their novels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Lost Generation |url=http://www.interestingarticles.com/literature/american-lost-generation-11089.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410005902/http://www.interestingarticles.com/literature/american-lost-generation-11089.html |archive-date=10 April 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016 |website=InterestingArticles.com}}</ref> It is particularly prominent in ''The Great Gatsby'', in which the character [[Nick Carraway]] comes to realize the corruption that surrounds him.

===Notable figures===
{{further|List of writers of the Lost Generation}}

Notable figures of the Lost Generation include [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lapsansky-Werner |first=Emma J. |title=United States History: Modern America |publisher=Pearson Learning Solutions |year=2011 |location=Boston, MA |page=238}}</ref> [[Thomas Wolfe]], [[Gertrude Stein]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Dorothy Parker]], [[T.&nbsp;S. Eliot]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Esguerra |first=Geolette |date=9 October 2018 |title=Sartre was here: 17 cafés where the literary gods gathered |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/travel/destination/10/09/18/lit-and-legend |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312063214/https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/travel/destination/10/09/18/lit-and-legend |archive-date=12 March 2019 |access-date=15 March 2019 |publisher=ABS-CBN News}}</ref> [[Ezra Pound]], [[Jean Rhys]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thompson |first=Rachel |date=25 July 2014 |title=A Literary Tour of Paris |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachelthompson/a-literary-tour-of-paris_b_5611255.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513210926/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachelthompson/a-literary-tour-of-paris_b_5611255.html |archive-date=13 May 2017 |access-date=15 March 2019 |work=HuffPost}}</ref> [[Henry Strater]],<ref name=":02">{{Cite news |date=December 24, 1987 |title=Obituaries: Henry Strater, 91; Artist at Center of Lost Generation |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-24-mn-30849-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005181241/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-24-mn-30849-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Sylvia Beach]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monk |first=Craig |title=Writing the Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism |publisher=University of Iowa Press |year=2010}}</ref>
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