The students in NTU's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in those days included such future luminaries as Kenneth Pai (Pai Hsien-yung), Chen Jo-hsi, Wang Wen-hsing, Wang Chen-ho, and Ou-yang Tzu. Together, they founded Modern Literature, a magazine advocating "experimental, exploratory, and creative artistic forms and styles."
當時在台大外文系的一群學生，包括白先勇、陳若曦、王文興、王禎和、歐陽子等人，創辦了「現代文學」雜誌，主張「試驗、摸索、創造的藝術形式和風格」，大膽引進西方前衛文學作家如卡夫卡、喬伊斯、吳爾芙、沙特、福克納等人的鉅作。