Ernest hemingway the writer of the lost generation course work

1.4.Duration of the movement 
 
The historians and the authors of Generations, Howe (1992) andWilliam 
Strauss in their book assert that members of the LostGeneration were born 
between 1883 and 1900. This movement startedits activity with the emerging of 
roaring twenties, but the members came of age during World War I. Activities of 
this movement had been initiated by Gertrude Stein who was the first member of 
the group of American writers who immigrated to Paris. In Europe, this 
movement is also known as Generation of 1914’ for the year World War I began. 
Writers of this movement were mostly prolific after the First World War and in 
the twenties, when the second wave of expatriate writers entered Paris.
Authors like Hemingway (1964) and Fitzgerald along with other literary 
figures established a set of works which shared some elements resulted from 
The Great War. Stein’s immigration to Paris in the first decade of the twentieth 
century was the starting point for the creation of this movement.After the world 
war, America with its growing boundaries likethe prohibition of the sale of 
alcohol was less appealing for the literary figures. In the early 1920s, more 
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expatriate writers chose Paris as their new home and Stein’s salon was 
appropriate to gather them in one place. This movement and its writers were 
prolific until the end of this decade. When in 1929 great depression marked the 
end of the roaring twenties, the extravagant life and extremist lifestyle ended 
along with the movement itself. This movement was gradually replaced by next 
generation which adapted itself with immigration and experienced great 
depression in its formative years. But the effects of lostgeneration moved 
along with American society and literature duringthe rest of the century.