The generation belonged to a period of transition from values already fixed to values that had to be created. Its members began by writing for magazines with names like Transition, 1924, Secession, Broom. They were seceeding from the old, but could adhere...
Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, that emphasizes the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. Normality returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern...
The present unit, Unit 55, aims to provide a useful introduction to four relevant figures of the so-called American Lost Generation, that is, S. Fitzgerald, J. Steinbeck and E. Hemingway, as well as the Narrative of W. Faulkner. Since they were born in the very...