The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway

The generation of writers and artists who came of age during World War 1, from the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, were known as the Lost Generation, they lived in Paris during the 1920s and 30s. The name Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein following an argument with a mechanic of that age and said they were all “a generation perdue” or a lost generation. It was picked up and continued as a name for these authors after Ernest Hemingway also mentioned it in the epigraph for The Sun Also Rises; “you are all a lost generation”. The phrase depicted this generation as doomed youth, characterized by hedonism, uncompromising creativity, and wounded, both literally and metaphorically by the war, and who had lost their drive and

They also lived a largely Bohemian lifestyle.

Bohemianism is the practice of a typically unconventional lifestyle, often with fellow like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving primarily musical, artistic, literary or spiritual pursuits. They were associated with unorthodox or anti-establishment political and social points of view, these views were often expressed through free love, frugality and sometimes living in voluntary poverty. The term Bohemianism emerged in France during the early nineteenth century when artists and writers began to concentrate on the lower class, Romani neighborhoods. In living this lifestyle in Paris, the Lost Generation tended to have open relationships, there were many lesbians among this groups and affairs were rampant, all of which was fueled by abundant amounts of alcohol, bohemians were amongst the first to promote the Sexual Revolution and the counter-cultural lifestyle. This lifestyle is also depicted in Djuna Barnes

The Exposition promoted peace and a world view or internationalism based on the illusion of global cooperation, along with a modern ethnographic appreciation of other cultures. This manifested itself through a desire for classificatory systems and often antiquated and Orientalist exhibitory practises. It did so against the increasingly dominant xenophobic and anti-Semitic sentiments throughout French society which was concordant with the rise in French fascism in the late 1930s. Sasha is spurred to see the Exhibition by Rene’s anti-Semitic remarks on Russians in Paris, “Jews and poor whites…The most boring people in the world”. To which Sasha responds “Terrible people”. The Trocadero, which Sasha visits with Rene, is the sight of the Palais de Chaillor, which was the main viewpoint of the Exposition. The text, however, doesn’t include the sight, this may be an authorial comment on the monumentality, and the violent content of the dominant