The Horrors of World War II Depicted in Literary Works of Twentieth Century Writers

World War II brought many effects in the mid-20th century. It includes emotional and psychological influences on people who write literary works and uses their experience as a theme for writing. The same applies to Italian writers who saw the deepest influence of World War II in Italy. Europe of the 20th century brought enormous confusion and destruction to many people. The two world wars have influenced the lives of many people, and the events of war have become the source of inspiration for great writers.

Virginia Woolf (1888-1941) is a British writer, one of the most important modernists of the 20th century. Wolf is an important figure in modernist literary movement. She is best known for her work between World War I and World War II, including the article "Man's Room" in 1929 and the novels "Mrs Dalloway" and "Orlando". In her work she studies the difficulties faced by female writers and intellectuals. Because men disproportionate the power of law and economy, and the future of women in education and society.

Postmodern literature is the so-called style and ideological limitation of modernist literature, and the response to the fundamental change in world experience after World War II. Modernist literary writers often draw the world as being fragmented on the crisis of troubles and disasters, which is best reflected in modernist writer Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Albert Camus, Virginia Woolf, other novels and novels. Postmodern writer Thomas Mann tends to portray the world as having experienced countless disasters and can not be saved or understood.

Modernism "The term that refers to literature and art evolved from the beginning of the First World War to the Second World War in the early 20th century because of the classical literary customs of the 19th century and the rejection of tradition and morals "(Bellisario, 2005, p.132) Scientific rationalization has grown rapidly in the 20th century, which inevitably attracts more people to humanitarianism and abandons God.

The worldwide movement of the 20th century was particularly rapid in the first half of the century. With the advent of World War I and World War II, immigrants from Europe came to America in large quantities. Especially after the end of the First World War, Americans believed that European immigrants were dangerous to American culture. In 1924, the US Congress passed the Immigration Control Act of 1924. It imposed strict quotas on immigrants entering the United States. From the 1960s to the 1990s, immigrants' dishonor, called "job seekers" and "criminals", faded away and Americans instead began to consider immigrants as beneficiaries of American economic, cultural, and political systems.