Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the end of the Second World War the society started to believe that the world’s basic rules are clear and coherent . Both world politics and social relations were depending on the principles of advancement , good innovations , trust in the rational , awareness , progress , and the knowledge of how to reason any phenomenon from a logical standpoint . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to change and now , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a changed kind of existence .
We effortlessly note those changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we almost never come to realize the fact that there are concrete thoughts standing behind those solutions . The nature of the upcoming change was initially tracked by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the numerous authors whose masterpieces have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have better than others other authors created and worded fresh suggestions and have in the end molded a fresh intellectual and emotional analysis of the future. They have seen issues in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a array of problems, which were existing without being noticed . They have aided us to think of the new challenges , and have given us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have shaped the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of dramatic change; change, which was seen as anarchy at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most problematic problems of the past era ; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having gone through the world wars and wild number of deaths, was unwilling to meet . Lastly they were raising the the most topical issue “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will name several of the most famous writers of the 20th century. They have all greatly influenced literature of their period, have manifested trends and dilemmas which were classic to their society and the period of time they were living in, and have motivated the audience think about the actual set of moral, having them understand that it is far from being ideal. One of the most exciting feature of their writing is that in mostly they have evoked the person’s interest in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most interesting success works is that of a famous writer Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be named unique as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is currently spending a extensive part of her money on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The plot of the book was found while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to bring out her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind piece of advice — to find a permanent job. He was unaware of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having published a series of exceptional fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This paper cannot name and more or less accurately list all writers who have given their contribution to the nowadays literature. They have been working and presenting ideas directly into the heads of the millions, and therefore were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these writers were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a significant role in creating the culture and the views of a society of the 20th century.