MOVEMENT 1

Question 1

characteristics of the Lost Generation

Answer 1

• link to writer’s experience of the WW1
• theme of decadence and frivolous lifestyle
• the death of the American dream

Question 2

2 authors of the Lost Generation

Answer 2

Ernest Hemingway (The sun also Rises)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The great Gatsby)

Question 3

a quote of an author of the Lost generation

Answer 3

“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Question 4

maxim of the Modernism

Answer 4

“Make it new” Ezra Pound

Question 5

What is Ezra Pound definition of image ?

Answer 5

«an emotional and intellectual complex in an instant of time»

Question 6

2 characteristics of Joyce’s short story

Answer 6

• deals with the «paralysis» of turn-of-the-century life in Dublin
• oeuvre of growth and decay

Question 7

a quote of Joyce

Answer 7

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.” ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Question 8

a quote from a writer of Young Angry Man

Answer 8

“If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)

Question 9

2 characteristics of Young Angry Men

Answer 9

• prominent in the 1950s
• young writers who were characterized by a disillusionment with traditional British society

Question 10

few representative works of the Young Angry Man

Answer 10

• Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim ( 1954 )
• John Braine, Room at the Top (1957)
• John Osborne, Look back in Anger (1957 )
• Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)