Ernest hemingway the writer of the lost generation course work

2.1. The Lost Generation and Hemingway 
 
The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World 
War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two 
contrasting epigraphs for his novel, 
The Sun Also Rises.
In that volume 
Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and 
patron. This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott 
Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham 
Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.
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MONK, C. 2008. Writing the Lost Generation. University Of Iowa Press; first edition. p. 41. USA

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In 
A Moveable Feast
, published after Hemingway's and Stein's deaths, 
Hemingway claims that Stein heard the phrase from a garage owner who serviced 
Stein's car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car quickly enough, the 
garage owner shouted at the boy, "You are all a "
génération perdue.
" [1]Stein, in 
telling Hemingway the story, added, "That is what you are. That's what you all 
are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation
 
'Lost means 
not vanished but disoriented, wandering, directionless — 
a 
recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's 
survivors in the early post-war years. [1]. the 1926 publication of Ernest 
Hemingway's 
The Sun Also Rises
 popularized the term, as Hemingway used it as 
an epigraph. The novel serves to epitomize the post-war expatriate 
generation.
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However, Hemingway himself 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 abided forever"; he believed the characters in 
The Sun Also 
Rises
may have been "battered" but were not lost.
,
in his memoir 
A Moveable 
Feast
, published after his death, he 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?' Variously, the term is used for the period from the 
end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression, though in the United 
States it is used for the generation of young people who came of age during and 
shortly after World War I, alternatively known as the World War I generation. 
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, 
define the Lost Generation as the cohorts born from 1883 to 1900, who came of 
age during World War I and the Roaring Twenties. In Europe, they are mostly 
known as the "Generation of 1914," for the year World War I began. In France, the 
country in which many expatriates settled, they were sometimes called 
the 
Génération au Feu,
the "Generation in Flames."[1]

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"What allowed European intellectuals born between 1880 and 1900 to view 
themselves as a distinct generation was that their youth coincided with the opening 
of the twentieth century and their lives were the bifurcated by the Great War? 
Those who survived into the decade of the 1920s perceived their lives as being 
neatly divided into a before, a during, and an after, categories most of them 
equated with the stages of life known as youth, young manhood, and maturity. 
What bound the generation of 1914 together was not just their experiences during 
the war, as many of them later came to believe, but the fact that they grew up and 
formulated their first ideas in the world from which the war issued, a world framed 
by two dates, 1990 and 1914. This world was the "vital horizon" within which they 
began conscious historical life. We believe, however, that the collection tends to 
redefine Midwestern American identity and it highlights melancholy produced by 
the era and area. The primary fact of this world - and the first thing that young 
people noticed about it - was that it was being rapidly transformed by technology. 
Europeans were being freed increasingly from the traditional constraints imposed 
on mankind by nature. Life was becoming safer, cleaner, more comfortable, and 
longer for most sectors of the population. Death had not been vanquished but its 
arrival was now more predictable, and the physician, along with the engineer, had 
been elevated to the priesthood of the new civilization.
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"At the same time that life was becoming more secure, its pace quickened 
and the sense of distance among people shrank. Even rest became recreation. 
Instead of picnicking or strolling on resort boardwalks, Europeans began to pedal, 
swim, ski, and scramble up the sides of mountains. The great events of the era, 
from a technological point of view, were the invention and diffusion of the 
automobile, the motorcycle, and the airplane. Speed still implied romance and 
adventure and had yet to be connected with traffic fatalities, tedium, and pollution. 
It is difficult to determine the precise effects that these changes of velocity had on 
the sensibility of intellectuals growing up in early twentieth century Europe. 
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MOWRY, G. 1963. The Twenties: Fords, Flappers, and Fanatics, Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Prentice-Hall. p. 1. 
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Certainly, though, the acceleration of movement enhanced the feeling of novelty 
and encouraged the conviction that the twentieth century would be fundamentally 
different from its predecessor, if only because it would be faster. 
There are few ways to effectively communicate the gravity of the paradigm 
shift that occurred throughout Europe following the final declaration of the 
armistice on November 11, 1918 which put an end to one of the most devastating 
and bloody wars in history.
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Not only was the whole of Europe organized into different countries 
with new alliances and borders, all parts of Europe were left reeling from the 
dramatic population losses and the return of survivors who were rendered 
unrecognizable either through the massive sustained injuries and, less visibly 
although certainly not less important, hard to recognize emotionally following a 
war that produced mental casualties that are impossible to calculate in numbers. 
This new paradigm of reorganized borders and population devastation created an 
entire generation, particularly of young men who were lucky enough to return 
home following the war [11]. 
In his novel