Lost Generation Reading Group Update

From: JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA
"The Lost Generation" Reading Group

We would like to bring you all up-to-date now that many of our snowbirds are returning.
Fifteen Joyceans attended our first session on October 5th which was devoted to an introduction to the Lost Generation and a discussion of two F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories set during this period. So we got all to a good start.

At our second session on October 10th, twenty Joyceans and two guests came to hear Pat White give a stimulating presentation of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. She kept us solidly engrossed with her scholarly analysis of this not-so-simple memoir. Thanks Pat.
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NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd

TOPIC: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, perhaps the iconic novel of the Lost Generation

We had planned to devote two sessions to the study of this novel: however, since we had so many other works which we wished to include in our study, we decided to limit our discussion of this novel to one session. This, of course, is no easy task.
To make it easier to address the entire novel immediately--without extensive background material on Hemingway--we are asking all of you who plan to attend this session to prepare in advance by going to GOOGLE to find the article on "Ernest Hemingway" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article, seventeen pages in length, is excellently organized. It covers the most important events in Hemingway's life (actually it is a short biography) and important insights into his works. Please concentrate on the last five pages which include the titles: "Writing Style," "Themes," and "Influences and Legacy."

See you all on November 2nd.
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