The Generation of 1914 or ''Novecentismo''. The next supposed "generation" of Spanish writers following those of '98 already calls into question the value of such terminology. By the year 1914 – the year of the outbreak of the First World War and of the publication of the first major work of the generation's leading voice, José Ortega y Gasset – a number of slightly younger writers had established their own place within the Spanish cultural field.