American avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term Lost Generation. According to Ernest Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast (1964), she had heard it used by a garage owner in France, who dismissively referred to the younger generation as a “génération perdue.” She turned that label on Hemingway and declared, “You are all a lost generation.” Hemingway used her remark as the epigraph of his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926), which captures the attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living set of disillusioned young expatriates in postwar Paris.
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