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Sotelo Ureta Alan Alberto

is a literary and cultural

international movement which

in the

…Is marked by a strong and intentional break with

tradition. This break includes a strong reaction against

established religious, political, and social views.

…Believe the world is created in the act of perceiving

it; that is, the world is what we say it is.

…Do not subscribe to absolute truth. All things are

relative.

…Feel no connection with history or institutions. Their

experience is that of alienation, loss, and despair.

…Champion the individual and celebrate inner

strength.

…Believe life is unordered.

…Concern themselves with the sub-conscious.

Modernism……

Name: Ezra Pound

Year: 1885-1972

Biography: He was born at Hailey, Idaho and he

studied at the Hamilton College.

Works: Immorality, Before Sleep and Ancient

Music.

Name: Eliot Thomas Stearns

Years: 1888-1965

Biography: He was born at St. Louis, Missouri. He

studied at Harvard and later he lived on England.

Works: Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family

Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1949), The

Confidential Clerk (1954), and The Elder

Statesman(1959).

Name: F. Scott Fitzegerald

Year: 1896-1940

Biography: He was an american writer of

novels and short stories.

Works: This Side of Paradise, Flappers and

Philosophers and The Beautiful and Damned.

Name: Williams Tennessee

Year: 1882-1941

Biogaphy: In 1929, after two years his father withdrew him

for flunking ROTC, and he took a job at his father's shoe

company. He despised the job but worked at the warehouse

by day and wrote late into the night.

Works: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and

Cat On A Hot Tin RoofName: Ernest Hemingway

Year: 1899-1961

Biography: Born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his

career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas

City at the age of seventeen.

Work: Men Without Women (1927), The Fifth

Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)

Name: William Butler Yeats

Years: 1865-1939

Biography: Yeats was educated in London and

in Dublin

Works: The Countess Cathleen (1892), The

Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni

Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904)