纵观美国文学史,如果说有什么黄金时代的话,那么第一次世界大战到第二次世界大战之间的二十年,即1919年至1939年,便是这样一个令人瞩目的时期。美国有七个诺贝尔文学奖获得者在这个时期创作出他们的最佳作品。这二十年又可大致分为前后两段。前十年产生了由海明威、费茨杰拉德等一批青年作家组成的“迷惘的一代”。在帝 Looking at the history of American literature, if there was any golden age, then it was such a remarkable period of two decades between the First World War and the Second World War, 1919-1939. Seven Nobel Prize winners in the United States have created their best works during this period. These two decades can be broadly divided into two sections. The first decade has produced a “lost generation” of young writers such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. In the emperor