Literature after World War II
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The Aftermath of World War II saw a separation of "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" (1950s literature), it is the floruit of the beat generation and the classical science fiction of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein.
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World War II
- Orson Welles
- George Orwell
- J. R. R. Tolkien writes The Lord of the Rings (published 1954/55)
Cold War period
- Umberto Eco Il nome della rosa (1980 - English translation: The Name of the Rose, 1983), Il pendolo di Foucault (1988 - English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989)
1990s
See also
- Aftermath of World War II
- 20th century literature
- French literature after World War II
- Postmodern literature
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