Feb 18 2009
You Are a Lost Generation
The Lost Generation refers to a group of American writers, artists, and musicians who made their way to Paris between the First and Second World Wars. It is commonly believed that writer Gertrude Stein came up with this term for the group. Ernest Hemingway is probably the best known of the Lost Generation authors and it was he who mentioned the name in the epigram of his book A Moveable Feast , which was about his life in Paris and as part of the Lost Generation.
Other authors included in this group are Kay Boyle, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The group’s main meeting place, when not a bar, was Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore and lending library owned by Sylvia Beach. It was Sylvia Beach who first published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922. James Joyce was also in Paris during these days and could be considered an honorary member of the Lost Generation.
The Lost Generation eventually produced some of the most original and influential literature of the times.
