Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the denouement of the Second World War people began to believe that the world’s basic ethical foundations are simple and justifiable . Both politics and social relations were relying on the thoughts of gain , beneficial changes , belief in the rational , enlightenment , technical progress , and the potential to reason any phenomenon from a analytical point of view . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world commenced to deteriorate and currently , 40 years after , we find ourselves in a transformed kind of existence .
We without any problems note those advancements which are given us by new technology, but we seldom realize the fact that there are specific concepts standing behind those solutions . The nature of the upcoming change was at first spotted by those people, who as a rule lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for entertainment , there have been a few who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have more effectively than others other people formed and formulated authentic thoughts and have in the end done a new intellectual and emotional substantiation of the future. They have seen problems in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a number of problems, which were dragging on without being noted . They have helped us to realize the new challenges , and have given 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 disarray at the start of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most burning problems of the past era ; those problems , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and unseen sufferings , was reluctant to meet . In the end they were formulating the the most topical issue “What will our future look like?”
In this work we will name some of the most well known authors of the last century. They have all greatly affected literature of their period, have depicted tendencies and problems which were classic to their nations and the times they lived in, and have made the readers meditate on the real ideology of values, having them understand that it is far from being flawless. One of the most important feature of their work is that in most cases they have awake the people attention in books and written works. in this case one of the most exciting success works is that of a well known writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has become the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is today spending a significant part of her earnings on charity, confronting poverty and diseases. The plot of the book was found while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to publish her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a friendly piece of advice — to look for a stable job. He was incredulous of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having written a number of amazing fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading.
This work cannot name and more or less accurately list all writers who have provided their gift to the world’s literature. They have been working and presenting ideas exactly into the heads of the people, and therefore were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not writing for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the sights of a society of the 20th century.