Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cessation of the Second World War the society began to believe that the world’s basic values are understandable and consistent . Both global politics and social relations were counting on the thoughts of advancement , good change , belief in the rational , awareness , technological progress , and the ability to ground any activity from a rational point of view . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and now , 40 years after , we find ourselves in a new kind of actuality .
We effortlessly note those advancements which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely come to realize the fact that there are some concepts standing behind those inventions . The essence of the future change was at first found by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose masterpieces have served for entertainment , there have been several of them who have given the planet a new vision . They have more effectively than others other authors molded and voiced new thoughts and have ultimately done a fresh intellectual and perceptual analysis of the future. They have seen problems in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a number of problems, which were going on without being noted . They have assisted us to think of the new issues , and have given us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have shaped the vision of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of drastic change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most vital problems of the last century; those questions , which the people , having survived through the world wars and unprecedented violence , was reluctant to deal with . Lastly they were formulating the the most topical issue “What will our future look like?”
In this work we will specify several of the most well known writers of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their period, have showed tendencies and difficulties which were essential to their society and the period of time they were living in, and have motivated the audience meditate on the real system of moral, having them understand that it is far from being ideal. One of the most important feature of their writing is that in mostly they have awake the person’s attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most exciting success writings is that of a brilliant author John Cheever.
The success of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is now spending a significant part of her profit on charity, confronting poverty and illness. The idea of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first agreed to bring out her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a loving piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was incredulous of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having published a number of unparalleled fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This article cannot enumerate and more or less exactly list all writers who have provided their contribution to the world’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 writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in creating the culture and the vision of a civilization of the 20th century.