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For a List of wars in the 20th century, see: List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002
Lists of wars in the 20th century; 0–9. List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato (19th century, during the Civil War) Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento (19th century) Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez (20th century, Eva Perón) El combate perpetuo by Marcos Aguinis (19th century, Admiral William Brown) La fragata Proserpina by Luis Delgado Bañón (19th century)
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
The war novel came of age during the nineteenth century, with works like Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma (1839), which features the Battle of Waterloo, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869), about the Napoleonic Wars in Russia, and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895), which deals with the American Civil War.
Novels concerning World War I continued to appear in the latter half of the 20th century, albeit less frequently. The novel Return to the Wood (1955) by James Lansdale Hodson depicted the court-martial of a British soldier accused of desertion, and the book was adapted as the play Hamp in 1964 by John Wilson and filmed as King and Country by ...
Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including James Joyce and later Samuel Beckett, both central figures in the Modernist movement
1733 in literature – Letters Concerning the English Nation – Voltaire; Memoirs of the Twentieth Century – Samuel Madden; Essay on Man (to 1744) – Alexander Pope 1734 in literature – Copies of Voltaire 's Letters on the English are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.