Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the end of the Second World War the public began to think that the world’s core rules are simple and logical . Both world politics and social relations were depending on the concepts of progress , good innovations , faith in science , understanding , innovations , and the knowledge of how to ground any phenomenon from a rational viewpoint . However , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and now , 40 years after , we live in a new kind of reality .
We effortlessly spot those advancements which are given us by new technology, but we almost never realize the fact that there are specific ideas standing behind those solutions . The essence of the future change was initially spotted by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose masterpieces have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the planet a new vision . They have better than others other authors created and formulated authentic thoughts and have in the end done a brand new intellectual 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 going on without being noticed . They have aided us to think of the new issues , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have formed the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of drastic change; change, which was viewed as mayhem at the start of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most problematic issues of the last century; those issues , which the people , having gone through the world wars and wild sufferings , was reluctant to face . In the end they were formulating the the most topical question “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will mention several of the most popular authors of the 20th century. They have all significantly affected literature of their epoch, have depicted tendencies and problems which were typical to their people and the period of time they were living in, and have made the readers analyze the running set of values, having them understand that it is far from being flawless. One of the most important feature of their writing is that in often they have awake the readers’ interest in books and written matter. In this aspect one of the most exciting success works is that of a brilliant 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, fighting 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 publish her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a loving piece of advice — to find a permanent job. He was incredulous of the idea that the young writer would be able to make money of writing. Joann has proved the opposite - having created a number of exceptional fairytales, she has made 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 writers who have made their contribution to the world’s literature. They have been writing and bringing ideas directly into the minds of the millions, and in this way were influencing 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 looks of a society of the 20th century.