The most important works produced by the Modern Literature group include Kenneth Pai's Tales of Taipei Characters and Wang Wen-hsing's Family Catastrophe. These were seminal works that used sharp, original language, structures, and symbols to reflect the society of the day and express their authors 'strongly humanistic leanings.
「現代文學」的主要成員也成為日後的文學大將，他們的作品如白先勇的《台北人》、王文興的《家變》，不僅反映了當時的社會、人文面向，在文字、結構、意象上也有獨創與精銳的表現。