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Lost Generation
"Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation of writers that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, his then mentor and patron. The phrase originates from an argument Gertrude Stein overheard between a French garage owner and his employee. The owner accused the employee, a young veteran of World War I, of belong to “une génération perdue” - a lost generation.
Stein, when recounting the story to Hemingway, added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in ...more
Stein, when recounting the story to Hemingway, added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in ...more
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We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.
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― The Confessions of a Harvard Man : The Street I Know Revisited: A Journey Through Literary Bohemia, Paris & New York in the 20's & 30's
― The Confessions of a Harvard Man : The Street I Know Revisited: A Journey Through Literary Bohemia, Paris & New York in the 20's & 30's
