Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the denouement of the Second World War people started to think that the world’s core ethical foundations are simple and logical . Both general politics and social relations were counting on the thoughts of advancement , good change , belief in science , awareness , technological advancement , and the potential to reason any activity from a analytical point of view . However , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world commenced to deteriorate and currently , 40 years later , we dwell in a changed type of reality .
We without any problems mark those changes which are given us by new technology, but we barely realize the fact that there are some concepts standing behind those technological solutions. The core of the upcoming change was initially found by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – philosophers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given people a new picture of the future . They have more effectively than others other authors formed and formulated fresh thoughts and have ultimately done a brand new intellectual and perceptual analysis of the future. They have noted challenges in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a number of problems, which were existing without being noted . They have aided us to think of the new issues , and gave us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have determined the mindset of the entire generation, which has live through the times of dramatic change; change, which was viewed as chaos at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most burning problems of the past epoch ; those questions , which the humankind , having gone through the world wars and wild number of deaths, was unwilling to deal with . Lastly they were raising the most important dilemma “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will specify several of the most prominent writers of the 20th century. They have all greatly influenced literature of their period, have manifested trends and problems which were typical to their nations and the times they existed in, and have motivated the readers analyze the actual ideology of moral, having them realize that it is far away from being genuine. One of the most exciting feature of their work is that in often they have awake the audience attention in books and written works. in this case one of the most exciting success writings is that of a brilliant writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has become the first author in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is today spending a noticeable part of her money on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The plot of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to bring out her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to look for a permanent job. He was unaware of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing. Joann has showed the opposite - having created a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This article cannot enumerate and more or less accurately list all writers who have provided their contribution to the nowadays literature. They have been working and bringing ideas directly into the minds of the people, and thus were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable role in creating the culture and the vision of a society of the 20th century.