 20th century in literature

Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).In terms of the Euro-American tradition, the main periods are captured in the bipartite division, Modernist literature and Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by World War II.