a-the lost generation.
The Lost Generation was the middle-aged American writers living in Paris after the WWI, whose artistic jobs became famous in the 1920s. Most of them were expatriated, and had been involved somehow in the WWI; they were also known for being disillusioned by the war, and their critics to the new post-war generation. The most known figures of this literary movement were Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is known for his writings, especially the Great Gatsby (1925), an American classic today, in such novel he accurately depicts the culture of the 1920s that came with the end of the war, also called the "Roaring Twenties", in which a carefree, immoral, reckless and materialistic way of living became the norm for many.
As for Hemingway, he volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross during the WWI, in such duty, he resulted injured twice. After the events, he met a Red Cruss nurse that took care of him, and he fell in love with her, a circumstance that served as inspiration for his very famous war novel "A Farewell to Arms".
