Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the denouement of the Second World War the public began to feel that the world’s main ethical foundations are understandable and logical . Both global politics and social relations were depending on the concepts of gain , positive changes , belief in the rational , understanding , technical advancement , and the ability to substantiate any activity from a rational viewpoint . Nevertheless , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to deteriorate and now , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a transformed kind of actuality .
We effortlessly spot those innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely come to realize the fact that there are some concepts which the author has put behind those solutions . The nature of the expected change was initially noticed by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the many authors whose masterpieces have served for amusement , there have been several of them who have given people a new picture of the future . They have better than others other authors molded and worded new ideas and have ultimately done a fresh intelligent and emotional grounding of the future. They have spotted challenges in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a array of problems, which were dragging on without being noted . They have assisted us to realize the new problems , and sent us new hope .
These were the authors who have shaped the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of cardial change; change, which was seen as mayhem at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most problematic problems of the past century; those problems , which the humankind , having gone through the world wars and wild number of deaths, was unwilling to deal with . In the end they were raising the most critical question “What will happen in the future”?
In this work we will name several of the most well known authors of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their time, have revealed looks and dilemmas which were relevant to their society and the period of time they lived in, and have made the audience analyze the running system of moral, having them realize that it is far from being flawless. One of the most important feature of their work is that in most cases they have evoked the people attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most exciting success works is that of a brilliant author John Cheever.
The success of Joan Rowling can be considered unique as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is today spending a noticeable part of her money on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The idea of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to publish her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a friendly advice — to find a stable job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing. Joann has proved the opposite - having created a number of unparalleled fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This work cannot enumerate and more or less exactly list all authors who have given their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been working and bringing ideas exactly into the heads of the people, and therefore 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 molding the culture and the vision of a society of the 20th century.