The Lost Generation

While I was reading about Hemingway and other modernist writers, a concept named "The Lost Generation" called my attention.

To put it into context, this concept is used to refer to the generation, actually an age companion, that came of age durig World War I. The term was popularized by Hemingway, who used it as  one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel "The Sun Also Rises". In that volume, Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron and a woman who is considered the mother of The Lost Generation.

Some authors that are part of the Lost Generation are John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkne, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, among others. They moved to Paris ( Paris was the advant garde for all areas of creativity. Escape from the austere materialism of american cities expecting to find literary freedom), living there from 1920 to 1930. They ha a profound impact in society and arts.

Why is it called Lost Generation?
Because this group rebelled against what America became by the 1900´s.

Regarding the novel "The Sun Also Rises", the novel helped define this generation: disillusioned young people whose lives were profoundly affected by the war.

On the other hand, there are two epigraphs in the novel, one from Gertrude Stein and the other from Ecclesiastes.

You are all a lost generation. 
-Gertrude Stein in conversation with Ernest Hemingway

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but rhe earth abideth forever...The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose...The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, an the wind returneth again according to its circuits... All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come thither they return again.
-Ecclesiastes

The first epigraph was already explained and the second one, from what I have gathered, recalls the title of the book, in it´s description of the many circular and continuous lives and deaths of the world.

                                   
                                     She is Gertrude Stein painted by Picasso!! :O