Soldier's Home

Soldiers at home (AKA Soldier 's Home ) is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, in his book appeared in 1925 in our time.

It discusses the lifestyle of the Lost Generation, the aimless wandering after the First World War through their lives. In addition to Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos or TS Eliot belonged to this group of young writers who lived as an American in Paris in the 1920s, and there took the first tentative steps literary. The name itself comes from Gertrude Stein.

In soldiers home Hemingway tells of a young American war veteran Harold Krebs, who is traumatized by experiences front and no longer feels in his old home well. He harbors always desire to have never left Germany because he was there among men who understood him. In direct contact with cancer is in the course of history with his younger sister Helen and his mother. Helen looks up at her brother and wishes that he watches her play in baseball. His mother tried to get him with the help of religion back on the right track, in which she tries to animinieren him to seek to marry a steady job and a girl. In fact, cancer decides to Kansas City to go to look for work. Emotional lets him everything completely cold.

The short story was published as one of fifteen in the collection in our time. The two-part final story Large double hearted current also is about a war veteran. There is Nick Adams, who wants to find his old life after his return, where he is taking a camping trip into nature.

As the main work on the subject of Hemingway's Lost Generation may be novel are called Fiesta which is about a group of Americans who commute aimlessly between Paris and Madrid without it but have a real future in mind.