Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the cease of the Second World War people began to consider that the world’s basic rules are understandable and consistent . Both global politics and social relations were depending on the thoughts of progress , beneficial innovations , confidence in the logical , understanding , hi-tech advancement , and the ability to reason any phenomenon from a analytical viewpoint . Notwithstanding , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and currently , 40 years later , we live in a new kind of existence .
We easily notice all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we rarely are aware of the fact that there are concrete ideas which the author has put behind those solutions . The core of the upcoming adjustment was initially found by those people, who more often than not lived anteceding their time – poets and authors. Among the numerous authors whose works have served for entertainment , there have been a few who have given the planet a new picture of the future . They have better than others other people molded and formulated authentic thoughts and have ultimately created formed a new intellectual and emotional substantiation of the future. They have spotted issues in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were existing without being noticed . They have aided us to become aware of the new problems , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have shaped the thoughts of the entire generation, which has live through the times of cardial change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the start of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most problematic dilemmas of the previous century; those problems , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and unprecedented violence , was reluctant to meet . Finally they were voicing the most critical dilemma “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will mention several of the most popular authors of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their time, have reflected tendencies and difficulties which were typical to their society and the times they existed in, and have made the readers meditate on the actual set of values, having them realize that it is far away from being ideal. One of the most exciting aspects of their writing is that in mostly they have awake the person’s attention in books and written matter. in this case one of the most exciting success works is that of a well known author Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be considered phenomenal as she has become the first author in the world to make $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is today spending a great part of her profit on charity, confronting poverty and illness. 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 awarded her 1500 pounds together with a loving piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having produced a series of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This work is not able to name and more or less exactly list all authors who have offered their contribution to the nowadays literature. They have been working and putting ideas directly into the heads of the people, and in this way were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not creating for entertainment only, but they were also playing a considerable role in shaping the culture and the looks of a society of the 20th century.