The 1960s certainly produced writers, though they were writers of the moment, that moment being a decade of "social change," political turmoil and war following the Kennedy assassination. Despite its turbulent milieu, the literature of the time curiously lacks substance. Some great novels were written, but they only chronicle the time in indirect ways: Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a book about rebellion, but not about the zeitgeist, per se; as is Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 (1969), an anti-war novel parts of which are set in World War II and record the massive bombing of Dresden.
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