The literature is probably the most important expression of humanity along the history. In there we can look the soul of a society. I think that our society is very complex and changes drastically in short time.
One of the most important contemporanean events of the literature is the born of a generation of american whiters named the beat generation, before the W.W. II the vanguards are in the cultural scene. and in this context born the beats, writing about topics like innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.
Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature. Personaly I think that naked lunch and howl are ones of the best literary works ever writed.
In my opinion the beat generation is like the first son of the post modernism in literature.
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