Unit 5 The Sad Young Men背景介绍(8)

The Sad Young Men and The Lost Generation Both refer to the same group of people . The first name was created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book All the Sad Young Men . And the second by Gertrude Stein , The remark of Gertrude Stein "you are all a lost generation ",addressed to Hemingway , was used as a preface to the latter's novel The Sun Also Rises which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typical of the "lost generation".