In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era āa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.ā Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this āLost Generationā been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldās short fiction.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald
In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era āa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.ā Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this āLost Generationā been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldās short fiction.