This term refers to the lost of young men who were killed in
it and also to the young men who survived but later were adrift


morally and spiritually and in many other ways.
To the L.G. belong writers who had spent their late youth and
early manhood in the war. Their system of values was destroyed
and they also lost their sense of life.
Roman Rolland : Peter and Lucy
Army Barbusse : The Fire
E.M.Remarque
Francis Scott Fitzerald
Ernest Hemingway


Important events are always reflected in the literature of a
country. World War I. Produced a lot of novels and stories. In
the U.S.A. the best came from Hemingway.
Born in Illinois (Ohio), he lived in the U.S.A., in Paris and
Cuba, making a number of hunting trips to Africa and traveling
all his life long. Being a newspaper reporter, he was deeply
interested in public events. He used to take an active part in
them: in World War I. He served in an ambulance group, during
the Spanish Civil War he stayed in Spain and reported on it. Being keen on hunting, Hemingway had a great respect for
courage.
Being verbally gifted, E.H. developed a striking style, very
simple, and yet emotional. His stule of writing contributed to
the international popularity.
The Sun Also Rises (1926) - the first novel,
A Farewell to Arms (1929) - antiwar love story, Frederick and
Catharine
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea (Nobel Price in 1954)
(Man can be destroyed but not
defeated)


JOSEPH HELLER (1923)


He is American novelist and playwright. During World War II he
served in the American Airforce. Then he worked for magazines. His first novel Catch-22, an anti-war satire, was on the list of
bestsellers for years. Describing the life of soldiers at an
American airforce base, Heller reveals the stupidy of bureaucratic
war administration and its regulations. Catch-22 has been traslated
into all European languages and made into a successful film in 1970.
The novel Something Happened is a pessimistic psychological
drama of a middle-aged man who being in a deep crisis, tries to
find out what happened with him, with his family and with the
society he lives in.
More recent novel Good As Gold is a satire on life in
Washighton, D.C. 2.OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900)
He was a dramatist, poet, brilliant essay and novel writer and
the author of beautiful tales.
He was born in Ireland in the family of a prominent surgeon. His mother was a poetess. He studied at Trinity Collage (Dublin)
and Oxford University. He was a leading figure of aesthets (a
group of young artists, rebelled against convention art and
behaviour of Victorian England).