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American Literature The Lost Generation By Jammi Wu What is it ? The “Lost Generation” is a term used to characterize a general feeling of disillusionment (幻想破灭） of American literary notables who lived in Europe, most notably Paris, after the First World War. Aimlessness moral loss melancholy (忧郁的）nostalgic （令人忧伤的） Origin of the term In fact, the term of the lost generation was coined by Gertrude Stein who is rumored to have heard her auto-mechanic while in France to have said that his young workers were, une generation perdue. This referred to the young workers poor auto-mechanic repair skills. Gertrude Stein would take this phrase and use it to describe the people of the 1920s who rejected American post World War I values. Famous writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Sherwood Anderson Ernest Hemingway John Dos Passos John Steinbeck Ernest Hemingway Works ten novels, ten collections of short stories and six works of non-fiction A Farewell to Arms 《永别了，武器》 The Sun Also Rises 《太阳照常升起》 The Old Man and the Sea 《老人与海》 For Whom the Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》 The Garden of Eden《伊甸园》 ………. What characterizes Hemingways?writing style? a lean, clear prose based on action rather than reflection. theory of omission or “iceberg principle ”（冰山理论） If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. —Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon Why Was It Significant to American Culture? This temporary emigration of American talent into cosmopolitan cities such as Paris, is sig