Introduction. The article presents the experience of holding a regular scientific and methodological conference "Literature in the Context of Modernity" dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the anniversary of the end of World War II, via videoconference, in the context of distance learning and scientific communication limited by the pandemic. The analysis of the reports presented at the scientific sessions was carried out, the conclusions and recommendations of the conference were formulated.

The main task of the videoconference is to comprehensively interpret the experience of artistic reflection of the Second World War in domestic and foreign literature;

The presented reports demonstrated the general and the different. individual and authorial in the depiction of war, in the discovery of new depths of philanthropy and cruelty;

The result of the videoconference in uniting the efforts of modern literary scholars in the work on the collective monograph “Literature of the XX century about the war”.

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