Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the denouement of the Second World War the society started to believe that the world’s essential values are clear and coherent . Both world politics and social relations were relying on the principles of advancement , beneficial innovations , faith in the logical , enlightenment , technological advancement , and the knowledge of how to reason any phenomenon from a rational point of view . Notwithstanding , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to degrade and currently , 40 years after , we live in a changed kind of reality .
We effortlessly spot all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely are aware of the fact that there are some ideas which the author has put behind those solutions . The essence of the expected adjustment was first spotted by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived ahead of their time – philosophers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new vision . They have more effectively than others other people molded and voiced new suggestions and have finally done a brand new intelligent and perceptual analysis of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a array of problems, which were existing without being noted . They have aided us to think of the new problems , and have given us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have shaped the thoughts of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of dramatic change; change, which was seen as disarray at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most tormenting dilemmas of the previous epoch ; those questions , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and wild number of deaths, was reluctant to meet . Lastly they were raising the main question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this work we will name several of the most famous authors of the 20th century. They have all quite impacted literature of their epoch, have showed looks and problems which were essential to their countries and the period of time they existed in, and have motivated the audience analyze the real ideology of moral, having them realize that it is far away from being genuine. One of the most exciting feature of their writing is that in often they have awake the audience interest in books and written works. from this angle one of the most interesting success stories is that of a well known author John Cheever.
The success of Joan Rowling can be called phenomenal as she has become the first author in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is today spending a noticeable part of her earnings on charity, confronting poverty and illness. The idea of the book was found while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to publish her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a friendly piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was unaware of the fact that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having produced a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This article cannot name and more or less precisely list all authors who have made their gift to the today’s literature. They have been working and putting ideas directly into the heads of the people, and in this way were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not creating for entertainment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the looks of a civilization of the 20th century.