The Generation of 1914: World War I and the Birth of the "lost Generation" (utopia Translation Series 070)
About This Novel
The young people of 1914 occupy a special place in people's memories, emotions and legends. In this touching book, Robert Wall rescues this generation from the shadow of historical conjecture and makes it understandable. He tells the story of this group of young people: middle-class elites in France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy, united by a sense of generation and distinguished by a unique experience of nationalism. These people were born at the end of the 19th century, when the rational world was disintegrating into an irrational one. They are destined to rule the world; however, their lives are interrupted by a world war, which forces them to find their connection to history and the future. Through the study of a large number of novels, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, sociological essays, philosophical essays, academic lectures, political speeches, recorded conversations, letters, personal diaries and newspaper articles, this book reconstructs this search process and brilliantly presents the collective and individual mentality of Europe at that time. Focusing on the experiences of the people behind the ideas, this book explores the origins of the First World War and how it roiled the lives of those involved. Demonstrating the cohesion and bonding role of intergenerational consciousness, readers gain a novel perspective and background to understand the spread of pessimism and despair, the decline of liberalism and humanitarianism, the rise of fascism, and the sudden outbreak of violence in progressive European countries between the two world wars.
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