Which best describes many of the postwar era's writers and their works?

fantastical

progressive

apathetic

pessimistic

Answer;

Progessive

The word that best describes many of the postwar era's writers and their works is progressive.

Explanation;

After the war many writers chose to focus on aesthetic or social rather than political problems, with an exception of some like C. P Snow.

Other novelist and playwrights of the 1950s, often called the angry young men, expressed a deep dissatisfaction with British society, combined with despair that anything could be done about it.

The answer is D) pessimistic.