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Lisa Wien and Lynthe van der Hulst V6a

The Lost Generation

Lisa en Lynthe v6a

Table of contents

- The Lost Generation

- Introduction writers

- Midnight in Paris

- Themes 

- Conclusion

The lost generation

- Generation (1890-1915)

- Group of writers  

- Could not accept social values

- Felt disoriented

- Gertrude Stein 

- Ernest Hemingway

What is the lost generation?

1. a group of American writers
2. a group of people who went missing in 1920
3. a book genre
4. the post-World War I generation

Writers

- Famous writers

- Lost generation

- Gertrude Stein

- Ernest Hemingway

- Scott Fitzgerald

- T.S. Eliot

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

- Gertrude Stein (his mentor)

- Trauma 

- Suicide

- The sun also rises

- Iceberg theory

Hemingway and his wife

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

- Writer, poet and art collector

- Invented term Lost Generation

- Word repetitions

- Features of art 

- Portrait made by Picasso

What was Gertrude Stein, besides a writer?

1. Art collector
2. Poet
3. Publisher
4. Critic

Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

- One of the most influential writers of 

the Lost Generation

- Heart attack

- The Great Gatsby (1925)

   - A classic 

   - Cross-section of American society.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

- Thomas Stearns Eliot

- Nobel Prize in Literature

- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Who wrote 'The sun also rises'?

1. Gertrude Stein
2. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Ernest Hemmingway
4. T.S. Eliot

Midnight in Paris

- Writers from The Lost Generation

- Partly set in 1920

- Gil Pender and Inez

- Paris

- Won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

- Nominated in 3 categories: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Art Direction.

What is the name of the main character of Midnight in Paris?

1. Pablo Picasso
2. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Paul Bates
4. Gil Pender

Important themes in the literary works 

- Decadence, hedonism

- Gender roles and powerlessness

- Idealised past

Conclusion