The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American intellectuals, poets, artists and
writers who fled to France in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism and
to seek the bohemian lifestyle in Paris.
The main representatives of the Lost Generation include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
and John Dos Passos.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940):
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald’s greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively in his personal experience the
embodiment of the nation and created a myth out of American life Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man And The Sea , The Sun Also Rises, Writing style direct, terse, and often monotonous, yet particularly suited to his elemental subject
matter., main working corollary of Hemingway's is “iceberg principle. William Faulkner :
The Sound and the Fury (1929),As I Lay Dying (1930