Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cessation of the Second World War people started to consider that the world’s ground values are clear and logical . Both global politics and social relations were depending on the ideas of development, beneficial innovations , faith in the rational , enlightenment , advancement , and the ability to explain any activity from a analytical standpoint . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to degrade and now , 40 years later , we dwell in a different kind of actuality .
We effortlessly note all innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we seldom are aware of the fact that there are some ideas standing behind those inventions . The core of the expected change was initially noticed by those people, who more often than not lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the many authors whose masterpieces have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new vision . They have better than others other people shaped and voiced new ideas and have finally done a brand new intelligent and emotional grounding of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were existing without being spotted . They have assisted us to become aware of the new problems , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have determined the mindset of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of drastic change; change, which was viewed as anarchy at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most burning issues of the last era ; those issues , which the humankind , having lived through the global wars and unprecedented number of deaths, was afraid to deal with . Finally they were raising the main question “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will specify some of the most prominent authors of the 20th century. They have all much influenced literature of their epoch, have offered tendencies and difficulties which were normal to their countries and the period they lived in, and have motivated the audience meditate on the actual system of moral, having them understand that it is far away from being ideal. One of the most exciting feature of their writing is that in often they have awake the readers’ interest in books and written works. from this angle one of the most interesting success writings is that of a brilliant writer Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has become the first writer in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is now spending a huge part of her profit on charity, confronting poverty and illness. The plot of the book was created while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to print her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was incredulous of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having produced a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This paper is not able to name and more or less accurately list all writers who have provided their gift to the world’s literature. They have been writing and putting ideas exactly into the thoughts of the millions, and in this way were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant role in shaping the culture and the looks of a society of the 20th century.