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The Lost Generation Writers

The term "The Lost Generation OF WRITERS" is used to describe a group of American writers who rebelled against what America had become by the 1900's. The term "lost generation" was coined by Gertrude Stein a lost generation writer herself after World War I. It was between the first and second World Wars, that these writers spent their time abroad. "In the 1930's, the forces of politics and war drove artists back to America".

At this point of time America has got a lucrative business however, the Lost Generation writers do not consider it as a sign to be a successful nation because it was devoid of a cosmopolitan culture. This kind of attitude was adopted by them because they want to pack up their bags and travel to Europe's cosmopolitan cultures, such as Paris and London. Here they expected to find literary freedom and a cosmopolitan way of life. A cosmopolitan culture is one which includes and values a variety of backgrounds and cultures. It was because of ethics such as this which made the cosmopolitan culture of Paris so alluring.

American Literature went through a profound change in the post World War I era. Up till know American writers were still expected to use the rigid Victorian styles of the 19th Century. The lost generation writers were above or apart from American's society not only in geographically but also in their style of writing and subjects they chose to write about. Although they were unhappy with American culture, the writers were instrumental in changing their country's style of writing, from Victorian to modern. Some of the famous writers of Lost Generation are Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway.

Hemingway is probably one of the most celebrated authors of his time. Hemingway is well known for his fiction. His take on fiction is something invented or imagined. Main topics were centralized

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