Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the end of the Second World War people began to think that the world’s core principles are understandable and consistent . Both politics and social relations were counting on the thoughts of development, positive changes , confidence in science , enlightenment , technical innovations , and the ability to substantiate any activity from a analytical point of view . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to deteriorate and currently , 40 years later , we live in a new kind of actuality .
We effortlessly mark those innovations which are given us by new technology, but we infrequently come to realize the fact that there are some concepts which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The core of the upcoming adjustment was at first spotted by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose works have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given people a new vision . They have better than others other authors created and formulated new suggestions and have in the end molded a new intellectual and perceptual analysis of the future. They have noted challenges in the mundane of our lives and have opened a set of problems, which were dragging on without being noticed . They have helped us to realize the new problems , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have formed the minds of the entire generation, which has live through the times of cardial change; change, which was viewed as disarray at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most burning dilemmas of the past century; those issues , which the people , having gone through the world wars and wild number of deaths, was afraid to meet . Finally they were voicing the most important issue “What will our future look like?”
In this paper we will specify some of the most prominent authors of the last century. They have all significantly affected literature of their time, have manifested looks and dilemmas which were relevant to their nations and the period of time they existed in, and have motivated the readers analyze the existing philosophy of values, having them realize that it is far from being ideal. One of the most interesting feature of their writing is that in most cases they have awake the readers’ attention in books and written matter. In this aspect one of the most exciting success writings is that of a famous author John Cheever.
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be named unique as she has become the first writer in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is today spending a noticeable part of her earnings on charity, fighting poverty and illness. The idea of the book was created while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to bring out her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind piece of advice — to find a permanent job. He was unaware of the idea that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having published a number of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This article is not able to enumerate and more or less accurately list all authors who have offered their gift to the today’s literature. They have been working and bringing ideas exactly into the thoughts of the people, and thus were influencing the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant role in molding the culture and the perception of a society of the 20th century.