Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cessation of the Second World War the public began to believe that the world’s ground rules are understandable and consistent . Both politics and social relations were counting on the principles of advancement , beneficial changes , trust in the rational , understanding , technical progress , and the knowledge of how to reason any happening from a logical viewpoint . Notwithstanding , 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 different kind of actuality .
We easily mark all 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 inventions . The core of the expected change was first spotted by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived anteceding their time – poets and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have better than others other people created and formulated new ideas and have finally molded a fresh intelligent and emotional analysis of the future. They have spotted challenges in the mundane of our lives and have opened a array of problems, which were going on without being spotted . They have aided us to realize the new challenges , and sent us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have shaped the thoughts of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of cardial change; change, which was viewed as mayhem at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most tormenting issues of the past century; those dilemmas , which the people , having gone through the global wars and unseen sufferings , was afraid to meet . Lastly they were formulating the most important question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this work we will specify several of the most popular authors of the 20th century. They have all significantly influenced literature of their time, have showed trends and dilemmas which were classic to their society and the times they existed in, and have made the audience think about the running ideology of values, having them realize that it is far from being flawless. One of the most fascinating feature of their writing is that in often they have awake the audience interest in books and written works. In this aspect one of the most exciting success writings is that of a well known writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be named unique as she has become the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is now spending a significant part of her earnings on charity, fighting poverty and illness. The idea of the book was created while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to publish her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to find a stable job. He was incredulous of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing. Joann has showed 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 cannot name and more or less precisely list all authors who have provided their gift to the today’s literature. They have been working and putting ideas exactly into the thoughts of the millions, and therefore were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable role in molding the culture and the perception of a civilization of the 20th century.