Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the cease of the Second World War the society commenced to consider that the world’s essential ethical foundations are plain and justifiable . Both politics and social relations were counting on the principles of gain , beneficial change , confidence in the rational , awareness , hi-tech advancement , and the potential to reason any phenomenon from a analytical viewpoint . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to deteriorate and now , 40 years thereafter , we dwell in a changed type of reality .
We effortlessly mark all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely come to realize the fact that there are concrete ideas which the author has put behind those solutions . The essence of the upcoming adjustment was initially found by those people, who more often than not 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 picture of the future . They have better than others other people created and worded new ideas and have ultimately done a fresh intellectual and emotional analysis of the future. They have found issues in the mundane of our lives and have opened a array of problems, which were going on without being noted . They have aided us to think of the new issues , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have determined the thoughts of the entire generation, which has live through the times of cardial change; change, which was seen as disarray at the start of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most burning problems of the previous century; those issues , which the people , having gone through the world wars and unprecedented sufferings , was afraid to deal with . Finally they were voicing the most important dilemma “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this work we will specify some of the most well known authors of the last century. They have all much affected literature of their period, have depicted looks and difficulties which were classic to their countries and the period of time they were living in, and have motivated the audience analyze the actual ideology of values, having them understand that it is far from being genuine. One of the most interesting feature of their work is that in mostly they have evoked the people attention in books and written matter. in this case one of the most interesting success stories is that of a famous writer John Cheever.
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be considered unique as she has become the first author in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is now spending a noticeable part of her money on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The plot of the book was invented 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 loving piece of advice — to find a permanent job. He was hesitant of the idea that the young author would be able to make money of writing. Joann has showed the opposite - having published a number of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This work cannot name and more or less precisely list all writers who have made their contribution to the today’s literature. They have been working and putting ideas exactly into the heads of the millions, and in this way were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these writers were not creating for enjoyment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the sights of a society of the 20th century.