Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the denouement of the Second World War people commenced to feel that the world’s essential principles are simple and justifiable . Both politics and social relations were counting on the concepts of progress , positive innovations , trust in the logical , understanding , hi-tech progress , and the knowledge of how to ground any phenomenon from a logical point of view . Notwithstanding , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to degrade and currently , 40 years later , we live in a different type of reality .
We without any problems notice those innovations which are given us by new technology, but we infrequently realize the fact that there are specific concepts standing behind those technological solutions. The essence of the expected change was initially noticed by those people, who more often than not lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose masterpieces have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given people a new picture of the future . They have more effectively than others other authors molded and voiced fresh suggestions and have finally created formed a new intelligent and perceptual substantiation of the future. They have spotted problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were dragging on without being noted . They have helped us to realize the new issues , and sent us new hope .
These were the authors who have formed the thoughts of the entire generation, which has live through the times of cardial change; change, which was seen as disarray at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most problematic problems of the previous epoch ; those questions , which the humankind , having lived through the global wars and unseen number of deaths, was unwilling to deal with . In the end they were raising the most critical question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this work we will specify several of the most well known writers of the 20th century. They have all much influenced literature of their time, have manifested tendencies and dilemmas which were normal to their nations and the period of time they were living in, and have motivated the readers analyze the actual ideology of moral, having them understand that it is far away from being genuine. One of the most important aspects of their work is that in most cases they have awake the people interest in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most exciting success works is that of a well known author John Cheever.
The success of Joan Rowling can be considered unique as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is now spending a huge part of her money on charity, battling poverty and diseases. The idea 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 loving piece of advice — to find a stable job. He was incredulous of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having created a number of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less precisely list all authors who have made their gift to the today’s literature. They have been writing 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 enjoyment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the views of a society of the 20th century.