Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the denouement of the Second World War the society commenced to think that the world’s core values are plain and logical . Both world politics and social relations were counting on the concepts of gain , good innovations , confidence in the logical , awareness , technological advancement , and the knowledge of how to ground any activity from a analytical viewpoint . Nevertheless , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to change and now , 40 years later , we dwell in a new kind of existence .
We without any problems mark those changes which are given us by new technology, but we almost never realize the fact that there are some concepts which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The nature of the future change was first spotted by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – philosophers and authors. Among the many authors whose masterpieces have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new vision . They have better than others other authors formed and formulated fresh suggestions and have in the end done a brand new intellectual and emotional analysis of the future. They have seen problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were going on without being noticed . They have helped us to think of the new challenges , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have determined the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of cardial change; change, which was viewed as mayhem at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most vital questions of the previous century; those problems , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and wild number of deaths, was unwilling to deal with . Finally they were raising the most important issue “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will specify some of the most popular authors of the 20th century. They have all much influenced literature of their epoch, have reflected tendencies and problems which were essential to their nations and the period of time they lived in, and have made the readers analyze the real set of moral, having them understand that it is far from being perfect. One of the most interesting feature of their work is that in mostly they have awake the audience interest in books and written works. in this case one of the most interesting success works is that of a brilliant author Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called phenomenal as she has found herself to be the first writer in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is today spending a significant part of her earnings on charity, confronting 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 agreed to publish her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind piece of advice — to find a stable job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having created a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This paper is not able to name and more or less precisely list all authors who have made their contribution to the today’s literature. They have been writing and putting ideas exactly into the heads of the millions, and in this way were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in creating the culture and the looks of a society of the 20th century.