Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the cessation of the Second World War the society began to consider that the world’s essential principles are plain and coherent . Both general politics and social relations were depending on the concepts of progress , beneficial changes , confidence in science , understanding , technological advancement , and the potential to explain any phenomenon from a rational point of view . However , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and currently , 40 years after , we dwell in a transformed kind of existence .
We without any problems spot those innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely come to realize the fact that there are some ideas which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The core of the upcoming adjustment was at first spotted by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the numerous authors whose poems have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given the planet a new picture of the future . They have better than others other authors formed and worded new thoughts and have in the end molded a new intelligent and perceptual substantiation of the future. They have seen problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a set of problems, which were dragging on without being noted . They have assisted us to become aware of the new problems , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have formed the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of drastic change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most problematic questions of the previous century; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having survived through the world wars and wild number of deaths, was reluctant to face . Finally they were formulating the main question “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will specify some of the most famous writers of the 20th century. They have all quite impacted literature of their epoch, have revealed tendencies and dilemmas which were classic to their people and the period they lived in, and have made the audience think about the actual set of values, having them understand that it is far away from being ideal. One of the most interesting feature of their work is that in often they have awake the readers’ interest in books and written works. In this aspect one of the most interesting success writings is that of a famous writer Anne Bronte .
The success of Joan Rowling can be called unique as she has become the first author in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is currently spending a great part of her earnings on charity, battling poverty and illness. The plot 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 awarded her 1500 pounds together with a friendly advice — to find a permanent job. He was doubtful of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing. Joann has proved the opposite - having published a number of exceptional fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This article cannot enumerate and more or less precisely list all writers who have made their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been working and presenting ideas exactly into the minds of the people, and therefore were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not writing for enjoyment only, but they were also playing a significant part in creating the culture and the looks of a civilization of the 20th century.