Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the cease of the Second World War people started to believe that the world’s main values are simple and logical . Both world politics and social relations were depending on the concepts of advancement , positive innovations , confidence in the logical , understanding , technical progress , and the potential to substantiate any activity from a analytical viewpoint . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to change and currently , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a changed type of reality .
We easily note those advancements which are given us by new technology, but we rarely realize the fact that there are some concepts which the author has put behind those solutions . The core of the future adjustment was initially spotted by those people, who as a rule lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the numerous authors whose books have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given people a new picture of the future . They have better than others other authors created and worded new suggestions and have finally molded a fresh intelligent and emotional substantiation of the future. They have noted problems in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a array of problems, which were going on without being noted . They have helped us to think of the new problems , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have formed the vision of the entire generation, which has live through the times of dramatic change; change, which was seen as anarchy at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most tormenting issues of the previous epoch ; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and wild number of deaths, was unwilling to meet . Finally they were formulating the the most topical question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will specify some of the most well known writers of the 20th century. They have all greatly influenced literature of their period, have offered looks and dilemmas which were classic to their people and the times they were living in, and have made the audience meditate on the existing set of moral, having them realize that it is far away from being flawless. One of the most important aspects of their work is that in mostly they have awake the person’s interest in books and written matter. In this aspect one of the most exciting success writings is that of a brilliant writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be called phenomenal as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is currently spending a great part of her earnings on charity, confronting poverty and diseases. 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 friendly piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was doubtful of the idea that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing. Joann has proved the opposite - having published a series of exceptional fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less exactly list all authors who have offered their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been working and bringing ideas exactly into the minds of the people, and in this way were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these writers were not creating for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant role in shaping the culture and the views of a society of the 20th century.