Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the end of the Second World War people started to believe that the world’s ground rules are plain and consistent . Both global politics and social relations were relying on the thoughts of gain , beneficial change , belief in the rational , enlightenment , technological advancement , and the potential to explain any happening from a analytical point of view . However , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to deteriorate and currently , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a different kind of reality .
We effortlessly mark all innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we almost never come to realize the fact that there are specific thoughts standing behind those solutions . The essence of the future adjustment was initially spotted by those people, who as a rule lived ahead of their time – philosophers and authors. Among the numerous authors whose poems have served for amusement , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have better than others other people molded and voiced new suggestions and have ultimately created formed a fresh intellectual and perceptual analysis of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a set of problems, which were dragging on without being noted . They have aided us to think of the new challenges , and have given us new hope .
These were the authors who have shaped the vision of the entire generation, which has live through the times of dramatic change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most vital dilemmas of the past century; those issues , which the humankind , having lived through the world wars and unseen number of deaths, was afraid to deal with . Finally they were formulating the main dilemma “What will our future be like?”
In this paper we will name several of the most well known authors of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their period, have manifested tendencies and problems which were relevant to their people and the period of time they lived in, and have made the audience meditate on the existing set of moral, having them understand that it is far from being flawless. One of the most exciting angle of their writing is that in often they have awake the readers’ interest in books and written matter. in this case one of the most interesting success writings is that of a brilliant author Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is currently spending a noticeable part of her money on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The plot of the book was created while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first agreed to bring out her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a loving advice — to find a permanent job. He was doubtful of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having produced a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less precisely list all authors who have provided their contribution to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and putting ideas exactly into the heads 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 considerable part in shaping the culture and the views of a civilization of the 20th century.