About the Expats
The
Expatriate Literary Circle was designed to bring together a group of
intellects looking to share good classic reads and stimulating discussions.
The website has been set-up to simulate the same Parisian cafe atmosphere
of the 1920's - as experienced by our expatriate forefathers, which
included the likes of Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein,
E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot. The new Expatriate Literary Circle will
read and discuss a classic book a month selected from a list of member
recommendations.
Earnest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises (1926), has been considered the essential prose of the Lost Generation. Its theme of detachment and alienation reflected the attitudes of its time. The term, "Lost Generation" was originally coined in a conversation by Gertrude Stein, a member of the expatriates literary circle in 1920's Paris. While spontaneous and meaningless when first spoken, the expression would unwittingly go on to become the label for the expatriates from the United States and England who had rejected traditional American and British conventions for the more appealing lifestyle of Left Bank, Paris. Many Americans in Paris became bohemian writers and artists, their days spent lounging in cafes.
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F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald original Expat Members
1896-1940
To read more on F. Scott Fitzgerald and his selected works click here
