Uzbekistan state university of world languages english language faculty №2 Course paper Theme: The development of American literature after the war.

CONCLUSION
World War II gave a new direction to literary development in the United States. "Everything that is not related to the war should be put aside" - the main unwritten law of the wartime. The end of the previous period in the development of US literature was clearly emphasized by the death of several major writers of the 20-30s: in 1940, Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel West died , in 1941 S. Anderson passed away, and in 1946 - G. Stein. The era of modernism has passed, although its largest representatives, E. Hemingway and W. Faulkner, still continued to create. With the end of the war, a new generation of young writers came into national literature with honest realistic works about their tragic experience. The writers who were the first to reflect the Second World War in American prose are J. Hersey ("Hiroshima", 1946), N. Mailer ("The Naked and the Dead", 1948), I. Shaw ("Young Lions", 1948), G Wouk ("Conspiracy on the Kane", 1951), J. Jones ("From Here to Eternity", 1951) and other "war novelists", as their critics have defined. M. Cowley then complained that, unlike the First World War, which gave rise to a vivid literary experiment, the Second brought to life only the most traditional realism. Very soon, however, it became clear that Cowley was somewhat hasty in his judgments. After World War II, Jewish-American literature became the focus of the nation. Its authors spoke, as it were, on behalf of several million European Jews - victims of the genocide, to whom they were responsible for the duty of blood involvement. They still had to comprehend this monstrous historical experience. It is significant that the most impressive works about the genocide came out only in the 1970s: Singer's "Shosha", Epstein's "King of the Jews", Bellow's "Mr. Sumler's Planet". In the meantime, it was necessary to rethink the unique experience of American Jewry in a new way. The 70s were not just the years of prosperity, but the unconditional dominance of the Jewish-American tradition in US literature, since it was this tradition that most fully and impressively expressed the spiritual conflicts of the time . And it turned out this way because she perceived American reality and history, the very accelerated pace of life of a young energetic state a little "detached". This was the view of people genetically related to a different, opposite in spirit and very ancient Jewish culture, and in some cases (Singer, Bellow, Malamud) also related to the philosophical and artistic thought of pre-revolutionary Russia. On the one hand, the "detachment" made the world of their works colorful and unusual, sometimes grotesque, on the other hand, it greatly strengthened the sense of restlessness and alienation characteristic of US literature in the middle of the century, giving it a universal meaning