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Lost Generation

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cultural generation literary movement

The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural generation → literary movement →
activeInPeriod	1920s → interwar period →
associatedPlace	France → Left Bank → London → Montparnasse → New York City → Paris →
coinedBy	Gertrude Stein →
countryOfOrigin	United States of America →
emergedDuring	World War I →
hasCharacteristic	alienation → disillusionment → expatriate perspective → modernism → postwar cynicism →
hasMainActivity	literature →
hasNotableMember	Archibald MacLeish → Djuna Barnes → E. E. Cummings → Ernest Hemingway → Ezra Pound → F. Scott Fitzgerald → Gertrude Stein → Hart Crane → John Dos Passos → John Steinbeck → Kay Boyle → Sherwood Anderson → T. S. Eliot → William Faulkner →
hasNotableWork	A Farewell to Arms → The Great Gatsby → The Sun Also Rises → The Waste Land → Ulysses →
influenced	20th-century fiction → American literature → modernist literature →
influencedByEvent	World War I →
influencedByMovement	modernism → realism →
influencedByPhilosophy	existentialism →
languageUsed	English →
popularizedBy	Ernest Hemingway →
typicalForm	novel → poetry → short story →
typicalTheme	exile → hedonism → loss of faith in traditional values → moral ambiguity → psychological trauma of war → search for meaning →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Farewell to Arms → A Moveable Feast → Tender Is the Night → The Sun Also Rises →	literaryMovement
Charles Scribner's Sons → Hadley Richardson → Zelda Fitzgerald →	associatedWith
Ernest Hemingway → F. Scott Fitzgerald → Kay Boyle →	movement
In Our Time → Men Without Women →	literaryPeriod
American literature →	hasMovement
West Egg →	literaryMovementContext
Owl Eyes ("Lost Generation literature") →	literaryMovementOfWork
Gertrude Stein →	memberOf
Djuna Barnes ("Lost Generation literary scene") →	participantIn
The Sun Also Rises ("the Lost Generation") →	theme