Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the end of the Second World War the public began to believe that the world’s ground values are understandable and coherent . Both politics and social relations were depending on the concepts of progress , positive innovations , confidence in the rational , enlightenment , technical progress , and the potential to reason any activity from a rational standpoint . Notwithstanding , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to change and currently , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a changed kind of actuality .
We without any problems mark those innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we rarely come to realize the fact that there are some ideas which the author has put behind those solutions . The essence of the future change was first tracked by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived ahead of their time – philosophers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose masterpieces have served for pleasure , there have been a few who have given people a new vision . They have better than others other authors created and worded fresh suggestions and have in the end molded a fresh intellectual and emotional grounding of the future. They have spotted issues in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a set of problems, which were going on without being spotted . They have helped us to become aware of the new problems , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have formed the thoughts of the entire generation, which has live through the times of drastic change; change, which was perceived as anarchy at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most tormenting problems of the past century; those problems , which the people , having gone through the global wars and unprecedented violence , was afraid to meet . Lastly they were formulating the main dilemma “What will our future look like?”
In this work we will specify several of the most well known writers of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their period, have showed trends and difficulties which were classic to their countries and the period of time they lived in, and have made the readers think about the running ideology of values, having them understand that it is far from being genuine. One of the most exciting feature of their writing is that in mostly they have awake the audience attention in books and written matter. in this case one of the most interesting success works is that of a well known author Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be considered phenomenal as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is now spending a considerable part of her earnings on charity, fighting poverty and illness. The idea of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first agreed to publish her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to find a permanent job. He was unaware of the idea that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having written a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This article is not able to enumerate and more or less precisely list all authors who have offered their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been working and presenting ideas exactly into the thoughts of the people, and in this way were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a significant part in shaping the culture and the vision of a civilization of the 20th century.