Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cease of the Second World War the society began to deem that the world’s core principles are plain and coherent . Both general politics and social relations were relying on the thoughts of progress , good change , faith in the logical , enlightenment , technical innovations , and the knowledge of how to explain any happening from a logical point of view . Nevertheless , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and now , 40 years after , we live in a different kind of reality .
We effortlessly notice all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely comprehend the fact that there are certain thoughts standing behind those inventions . The essence of the future adjustment was first tracked by those people, who more often than not lived anteceding their time – poets and authors. Among the many authors whose works have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have better than others other people created and worded authentic ideas and have ultimately created formed a brand new intelligent and emotional grounding of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a set of problems, which were going on without being spotted . They have helped us to realize the new problems , and sent us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have formed the minds of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of cardial change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the start of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most burning questions of the previous era ; those problems , which the humankind , having survived through the global wars and wild violence , was reluctant to meet . Lastly they were raising the main question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will name some of the most well known authors of the last century. They have all much impacted literature of their epoch, have showed looks and difficulties which were normal to their nations and the times they lived in, and have motivated the audience meditate on the running system of values, having them realize that it is far from being perfect. One of the most important feature of their work is that in mostly they have risen the people interest in books and written matter. in this case one of the most exciting success stories is that of a brilliant author Anne Bronte .
The success of Joan Rowling can be named special as she has become the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is now spending a great part of her profit on charity, confronting 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 decided to bring out her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a loving advice — to find a stable job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having published a number of amazing fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This article is not able to name and more or less accurately list all authors who have made their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and bringing ideas directly into the minds of the people, and therefore were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not creating for enjoyment only, but they were also playing a considerable role in molding the culture and the vision of a civilization of the 20th century.