THE LOST GENERATION

The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation

Who compromise the lost generation?

The movement members include Ernest Hemingway, the most iconic, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Pierce, Sylvia Beach, TS Eliot et Gertrude All have seen and recounted the loss of transcendence of an America overwhelmed by social and psychological changes. Scott Fitzgerald is the leader of the Lost Generation.

Describe their common Characteristics as well as the achievements of some of the key figures

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

Steinbeck spent his entire life, worried about poverty and marginalization of certain sectors of their area of origin, central coastal California. He was fully aware of exploitation and impoverishment of many people because of the large companies, as the case of fruit growers.

His style is marked by the juxtaposition of the dialect of the poor rich idiomatic of the time, with a sophisticated reflection elegant prose on the political and social condition of mankind. His heroes are the poor and illiterate who can not normally express the ideas themselves have. Probably his most famous and typical of this style is "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1938 whose title was taken from a hymn of people of color on the reform. In it, we can see a family of poor white farmers, noted for his honesty and fervent religion, they are forced to move from Oklahoma, which was becoming a desert due to overexploitation of land, and migrate to California to find work picking fruit (Fitch, 1985).

They face the typical difficulties of hard work and poverty that happens, to the peasants dispossessed of Oklahoma and are surrounded by famine and death. Steinbeck condemns this horrific chapter in contemporary American history, both throughout history and their reflections.

"Of Mice and Men" in 1937, is based less on historical events but also tells the story of the poor farmers and their concerns. We see Larry, a gentle man but with a mental handicap who likes to have a pet mouse (which always dies in your pocket) as someone adorable. Other notable works include an edition of short stories written in 1935 and the novel "East of Eden" in 1952. John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 (Hemingway, 1996).

F.Scott-Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald had much in common with the rest of his generation, as well as significant differences. He was aware of the falsity of the values of the aristocracy of American society, like ...