After the Lost Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Lost Generation write by John Watson Aldridge. This book was released on 2019-01-13. After the Lost Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John W. Aldridge is one of the few young critics of importance to appear on the literary scene since World War II. In AFTER THE LOST GENERATION he discusses with acumen and discernment the most important works of the young post-war writers of the Forties—Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and others. Aldridge discusses three writers of the 1920’s—Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—to introduce the writers of World War II. He draws significant parallels between the work of the two generations—between Hemingway and Hayes, between Fitzgerald and Burns, between Bowles and Hemingway, and between the “lost generation” of the Twenties and the “illusionless lads of the Forties.” More important than the likenesses between the two generations are the new developments. Norman Mailer and Irwin Shaw wrote enormous “encyclopedic” war novels which covered whole armies and had settings in a dozen different lands. John Horne Burns sought relief from the chaos of modernity in Italian culture and Old World tradition. Truman Capote dealt essentially with abnormalities and peculiarities in human nature. Anti-Semitism, the Negro problem, and homosexuality appear time and again in the new writing. The old themes with which Hemingway and Fitzgerald shattered Victorian patterns—sex, drinking, the brutalities of war—are no longer shocking. AFTER THE LOST GENERATION is a penetrating analysis of post-war fiction that already has provoked wide controversy and discussion. “A pioneer study...The first serious and challenging book about the new novelists.”—Malcolm Cowley, New York Herald Tribune
Twenty-five Years After
Twenty-five Years After - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twenty-five Years After write by Malcolm Cowley. This book was released on 1951. Twenty-five Years After available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Exile's Return
Exile's Return - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exile's Return write by Malcolm Cowley. This book was released on 1994-12-01. Exile's Return available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal portrait, in renouncing traditional life and literature, they expanded the boundaries of art.
Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation
Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation write by Riley Noel Fitch. This book was released on 1983. Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott
Letters From A Lost Generation
Letters From A Lost Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters From A Lost Generation write by Mark Bostridge. This book was released on 2015-07-02. Letters From A Lost Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur', is the 'leader' & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward, ' Immaculate of the Trenches', was orderly & controlled, down even to his attire. Geoffrey, the 'non-militarist at heart' had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotism's sake. Victor on the other hand, possessed a very sweet character and was known as 'Father Confessor'. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism, disillusionment and personal tragedy.
