Exile Returns: The Literary Wandering Life of the 1920s

Author: Malcolm Cowley (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Under the pen of one of the most important members of the "Lost Generation," the adventures of this group and their attitudes toward life and literature are vividly brought to life before our eyes. In the 1920s, American young people, feeling deeply isolated and alienated against the backdrop of the Great Depression, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Kruze, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Dos Passos, and many other writers, "fled" to Europe. Some never returned, while others were only temporary exiles. As Cowley meticulously portrays in this deeply personal and anecdotal work, the "Lost Generation" severed ties with traditional life and literature, thereby expanding the boundaries of art. Their efforts went beyond the realm of literature, revealing the intense historical transformations of a great era. The author hopes that through the memories and records in this book, "the past will be explained to create the future."