The theme of the war of the "lost generation" in western European (American) literature

Abstract. The article examines the theme of the war of the “lost generation” in Western European (American) literature and in particular Ernest Hemingway as his representative. Then the "lost generation" began to call people who went through the First World War, spiritually traumatized, lost faith in the jingoistic ideals, once captivating them, sometimes internally devastated, acutely feeling their restlessness and alienation from society. The “lost generation” is so named because, having gone through circles of unnecessary, senseless war, it lost faith in the natural necessity of continuing its kind, lost faith in its own life and in the future. With their works, they wanted to prevent new wars, to warn people about their exceptional danger to humanity. At the same time, the work of the writers of the "lost generation" is full of humanistic aspirations, they call on a person in any conditions to remain a person with high moral qualities: belief in the power of courage, honesty, in the value of stoicism, in the nobility of spirit, in the power of a high idea, loyal friendship, immutable ethical standards. Of course, the term “lost generation” itself is approximate, because the writers who are usually included in this group differ in their political, social and aesthetic views, in the peculiarities of their artistic practice. Each of these writers is not like the other, and yet to some extent the term “lost generation” can be applied to them all: the awareness of the tragedy of American life has had a particularly strong and painful effect in the work of these young people who have lost faith in the old bourgeois foundations.

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