Lost generation

Conclusion
American writing about the Second World War reveals an impressive diver­sity of themes as well as discourses in all literary genres, traditional and experimental. The search for words which adequately present the war experience yields the most innovative results in the novels of the postmo­dernist writers, since they permit their readers - sometimes even force them - actively to participate in their characters’ attempts to make sense, more or less successfully, of events. The later texts of the 1960s and 1970s in particular include major works of the American postmodernist movement and set new standards for depicting historical events in a globalized context. Novelists writing in the traditional mimetic mode create characters with whom readers can identify, and often convincingly recreate “how it really was” - insofar as this is possible. The richness and power of poetic expres­sion are likewise remarkable and, as in fiction, often serve as inspiration for poetic styles from the 1960s to the 1980s. American authors successfully rise to the challenge of sharing the experience of the most massive and chronic global war to date with their readers.
List of used literature :

1. 
   President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the law “On Education” on 23 September. The document was passed by the Legislative Chamber on May 19 and approved by the Senate on August 7
   
2. 
   Philip Beidler, American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982), 138, 198.
   
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   For example, Martin Gilbert, The Second World War. A Complete History (London: Phoenix, 1989), 1.
   
4. 
   Malcolm Cowley, The Literary Situation (New York: Vintage, 1969), 41.
   
5. 
   John Keegan, The Face of Battle (New York: Viking, 1976), 31.
   
6. 
   Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun (New York: Knopf, 1944), 57.
   
7. 
   Frederick J. Hoffman, The Mortal No: Death and Modern Imagination (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964), passim.
   
8. 
   Joseph Heller, Catch-гг (New York: Dell, 1973), 259.
   
9. 
   Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (New York: Dell, 1982), 8.
   
10. 
    Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” The Complete Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, 1996), 144.
    
11. 
    Richard Eberhart, “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment,” Collected Poems, 1930-1986 (Oxford University Press, 1987), 90.
    
12. 
    Louis Simpson, “Carentan O Carentan,” The Arrivistes (New York: Fine Editions, 1949), 24.
    
13. 
    Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (New York: Knopf, 1995), 588, 599, 55^8, 577.
    
14. 
    William Styron, Sophie's Choice (New York: Random House, i979), 5i5.
    

FURTHER READING
Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (Oxford University Press, 1989).

Michael Lee Lanning, The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell (Secaucus, NJ: Carol, 1997).

1^ President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the law “On Education” on 23 September. The document was passed by the Legislative Chamber on May 19 and approved by the Senate on August 7

2^ Philip Beidler, American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982), 138, 198.

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   3^ Philip Beidler, American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982), 138, 198.
   
2. 
   For example, Martin Gilbert, The Second World War. A Complete History (London: Phoenix, 1989), 1.
   

4^ For example, Martin Gilbert, The Second World War. A Complete History (London: Phoenix, 1989), 1.

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   5^ Malcolm Cowley, The Literary Situation (New York: Vintage, 1969), 41.
   
4. 
   John Keegan, The Face of Battle (New York: Viking, 1976), 31.
   

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   6^ Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun (New York: Knopf, 1944), 57.
   
6. 
   Frederick J. Hoffman, The Mortal No: Death and Modern Imagination (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964), passim.
   

7^ Joseph Heller, Catch-гг (New York: Dell, 1973), 259.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (New York: Dell, 1982), 8.

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   8^ Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” The Complete Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, 1996), 144.
   
8. 
   Richard Eberhart, “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment,” Collected Poems, 1930-1986 (Oxford University Press, 1987), 90.
   
9. 
   Louis Simpson, “Carentan O Carentan,” The Arrivistes (New York: Fine Editions, 1949), 24.
   
10. 
    Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (New York: Knopf, 1995), 588, 599, 55^8, 577.
    
11. 
    William Styron, Sophie's Choice (New York: Random House, i979), 5i5.