问答题
Writers or poets are often lumped together as a group for the same artistic assertion they share or the same significant social event(s)they are influenced by. The Lost Generation is a particular term referring to the writers and artists who spoke for the young people that came of age during and shortly after the First World War, alternatively known as the World War I generation. Please describe the characteristics of " The Lost Generation" with references to writers and literary works.
【正确答案】正确答案：The term "The Lost Generation" was applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but replaced them only by despair and a cynical hedonism. The simple language and the tendency of spoken language are the characters of the lost generation. This simple style is pushed to the extreme in Hemingway works, such as his A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea. The lost generation writers cut themselves from the old values and lost in disillusionment and existential voids. The hollowness and hedonism in Fitzgerald"s fiction The Great Gatsby best exemplify this characteristic. The lost generation writers all gained prominence in 20th century literature. Their innovations challenged assumptions about writing and expression.