Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the end of the Second World War the society began to consider that the world’s essential ethical foundations are simple and consistent . Both world politics and social relations were depending on the concepts of gain , positive innovations , belief in the rational , understanding , technical progress , and the potential to explain any happening from a logical standpoint . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and currently , 40 years after , we live in a transformed type of actuality .
We effortlessly spot all innovations which are given us by new technology, but we infrequently are aware of the fact that there are concrete ideas which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The core of the expected adjustment was initially found by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived ahead of their time – writers and authors. Among the numerous authors whose poems have served for pleasure , there have been a few who have given people a new picture of the future . They have better than others other authors formed and voiced fresh thoughts and have finally done a fresh intellectual and perceptual analysis of the future. They have found challenges in the mundane of our lives and have opened a array of problems, which were dragging on without being noted . They have assisted us to think of the new problems , and have given us new hope .
These were the authors who have shaped the minds of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of drastic change; change, which was viewed as chaos at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most vital dilemmas of the last era ; those questions , which the people , having survived through the global wars and unseen sufferings , was afraid to meet . In the end they were raising the the most topical issue “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will specify some of the most famous authors of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their epoch, have manifested trends and problems which were typical to their nations and the period of time they existed in, and have motivated the readers meditate on the actual set of values, having them understand that it is far from being genuine. One of the most interesting aspects of their work is that in most cases they have evoked the person’s interest in books and written works. in this case one of the most exciting success stories is that of a brilliant author Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be considered special as she has become the first author in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is today spending a considerable part of her earnings on charity, confronting poverty and diseases. The idea of the book was created 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 loving advice — to find a permanent job. He was incredulous of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having written a series of exceptional fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less exactly list all authors who have offered their contribution to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and presenting ideas directly into the minds of the millions, and thus were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the perception of a society of the 20th century.