The document discusses different representations of war in literature from the 1950s onward. It begins with realist/naturalist representations from WWII literature that portrayed war as hell and involved loss of innocence. Catch-22 challenged these conventions with its absurdist take on war. Later postmodern works fragmented narratives, questioned objective truth, and exposed the illogical nature of war through time travel and metafictional devices. Kurt Vonnegut's works like Slaughterhouse-Five employed these techniques as a way to represent his own experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden.