In this garage, a young mechanic who repaired Stein's car failed to repair it. His poor performance made Stein complain to the garage owner. The factory owner felt that these young people in their twenties and thirties who had just experienced World War I were not so well trained as the generation before the war, so he pointed to the repairman and shouted, "You are all a lost generation."
Stan told the story and commented on Hemingway: "This is you. This is your generation ... you young people who have experienced war. You are a lost generation. "
Later, Hemingway took this sentence as the inscription of his first novel The Sun Also Rises, and the "lost generation" has since become the title of these writers who have the same creative tendency although they have no program and organization.
2. The Beat Generation: It was first put forward by the writer Jack Kruja around 1948. Is a group of loosely combined young poets and writers who appeared in the United States after World War II. They oppose all secular stereotypes and monopoly capital rule, resist foreign aggression and apartheid, hate machine civilization, seek absolute freedom and challenge decent traditional values, so they are called the beat generation.
3. Angry generation: Angry youth. During the Second World War, the British people hoped that the social system could be reformed. Labor Party 1945 came to power, but it did not realize the people's wishes, but pursued the policy of "welfare state".
195 1 year, the conservative party came to power again and continued to implement this policy. Although people's life has been improved to a certain extent, the political reform has been shattered, which has aroused people's dissatisfaction (especially young people). This kind of emotion is first reflected in literary works, so the word "fenqing" appeared.
Extended data:
The "beat generation" is actually the contrast of the "lost generation". Hemingway created a "lost generation" in the novel The Sun Also Rises. Young people (including Hemingway) who grew up after the First World War lost their faith in life because of the trauma of the war, but they did not lose their desire for human nature.
Many factors, such as the first world war, the social and economic development of the United States after the war, and the death consciousness and nihilism in the western world popular in the United States in the twentieth century, led to the emergence of the "lost generation".
Although the "lost generation" has only existed for a few decades, its influence on the United States is enormous and far-reaching. The greatest influence is the formation of the "lost generation" literature in the twentieth century.
In the field of western literature, the "Beat Generation" is also regarded as an important branch of post-modernism literature and one of the important schools in the history of American literature.
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