help needed-lost generation

[Veva]

Hi, please I need your help with this....I was given a question by my teacher and I can't seem to find the answer: What are the epistemological {gnostics and agnostics}, aesthetic and ethical problems in the works of lost generation authors - Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway and Passos. How do they cope with them? :sick:
Please any idea would be good.... thanx

[JBI]

Try reading them.

[PeterL]

Hi, please I need your help with this....I was given a question by my teacher and I can't seem to find the answer: What are the epistemological {gnostics and agnostics}, aesthetic and ethical problems in the works of lost generation authors - Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway and Passos. How do they cope with them? :sick:
Please any idea would be good.... thanx


What have you read by them? That would be the place to start.

[NickAdams]

I've only read Hemingway and Faulkner. Hemingway didn't think the prose of his time could express the concerns of his generation. I would look to Hemingway for aesthetics. I would look to Faulkner for ethics. They both deal with them, but these may be considered their specialty. Faulkner worked hard at people and Hemingway on his craft.

How did Hemingway think life should be coped with? Grace under pressure.

Alors vous êtes.

[mayneverhave]

Fitzgerald illustrates the luxuriance of the 1920's in The Great Gatsby, but simultaneously, the novel expresses a loathing for the unrestricted hedonism and that such a state could never last (as it obviously did during the Great Depression).

Faulkner, from my interpretation of him, dealt often with themes such as: the failure of words, the inability of man to face the absurd and reconcile his past, and the subjectivity of experience.

[Veva]

thanx a lot....
I've read The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, The old man and the sea, The sun also rises ....but still can't figure out the aesthetic problems....

[PeterL]

thanx a lot....
I've read The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, The old man and the sea, The sun also rises ....but still can't figure out the aesthetic problems....

I don't know what the aesthetic problems may be either. Perhaps others have problems with their aesthetics.