失落的一代作家简介.ppt

Chapter 11 The Writers of the “Lost Generation” From An Outline of American Literature by Peter B. High The “Lost Generation” (post WWI) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) This Side of Paradise (1920) 1. Fitzgerald’s first novel (p.143) 2. this generation “grew up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” 3. two concerns: fear of poverty and worship of success F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) 1. collections of his best short stories (p.144) 2. “flapper” – modern young ladies of that period who smoked, drank whisky, and lived dangerously free lives 3. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby (1925) 1. the greatest 20th century novel 2. belief in the absolute power and natural goodness of money 3. Gatsby, a tragic figure, symbolizes the American belief that money can buy love and happiness 4. Believes he can change the material world into the ideal world of his fantasy 5. heroic in his continuous belief of hope and dream F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) “Babylon Revisited” (1931) – describing the Lost Generation after its moral and economic collapse (p.146) Tender is the Night (1934) – Fitzgerald’s experience with his wife’s mental illness Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) The Sun Also Rises (1926) 1. a portrait of young adults in the post-war era living in Paris (p.146) 2. expatriates, people without a homeland 3. their despair is similar to the despair Eliot’s portrayed in his “Waste Land” 4. Jake Barnes, damaged by the war, physically and spiritually impotent Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) New York: Grosset Dunlap, 1930.Original black cloth with red paper labels lettered in black on spine and upper cover. White pictorial dust-jacket printed in red, green, and purple by S “ Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) The Sun Also RisesNew York, The Modern Library, 1930.Original blue cloth, spine upper cover stamped in gold. In red and white pictori