Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the denouement of the Second World War the public began to feel that the world’s ground ethical foundations are clear and coherent . Both world politics and social relations were relying on the ideas of advancement , good change , confidence in the logical , understanding , hi-tech innovations , and the ability to reason any happening from a rational viewpoint . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world commenced to deteriorate and currently , 40 years later , we dwell in a new kind of reality .
We easily mark all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely comprehend the fact that there are some concepts which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The core of the future change was at first tracked by those people, who more often than not lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for pleasure , there have been a few who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have more effectively than others other authors created and voiced new ideas and have in the end created formed a fresh intelligent and perceptual grounding of the future. They have spotted issues in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were going on without being noted . They have helped us to think of the new problems , and have given us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have determined the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of drastic change; change, which was viewed as anarchy at the start of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most vital issues of the past epoch ; those problems , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and unprecedented violence , was unwilling to face . Finally they were voicing the main question “What will our future look like?”
In this paper we will name several of the most popular authors of the last century. They have all much impacted literature of their time, have depicted tendencies and difficulties which were relevant to their nations and the period they were living in, and have motivated the readers meditate on the real system of values, having them understand that it is far from being flawless. One of the most interesting feature of their work is that in often they have evoked the people attention in books and written works. from this angle one of the most interesting success stories is that of a well known writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be called phenomenal as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is currently spending a noticeable part of her money on charity, confronting poverty and diseases. The idea of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first agreed to print her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was unaware of the idea that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having created a series of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This work is not able to name and more or less accurately list all authors who have offered their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and bringing ideas exactly into the minds of the people, 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 role in shaping the culture and the vision of a society of the 20th century.