Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the denouement of the Second World War the public began to think that the world’s core principles are clear and justifiable . Both global politics and social relations were depending on the ideas of gain , good changes , trust in science , understanding , technical advancement , and the ability to substantiate any activity from a rational point of view . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to deteriorate and now , 40 years later , we live in a transformed type of reality .
We easily spot all advancements which are given us by new technology, but we infrequently realize the fact that there are certain concepts which the author has put behind those solutions . The core of the expected adjustment was at first found by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived anteceding their time – poets and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new vision . They have more effectively than others other people molded and voiced fresh ideas and have in the end done a brand new intelligent and perceptual analysis of the future. They have found problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were existing without being spotted . They have assisted us to think of the new issues , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have shaped the vision of the entire generation, which has live through the times of drastic change; change, which was seen as chaos at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most tormenting dilemmas of the last century; those problems , which the humankind , having survived through the world wars and unprecedented sufferings , was unwilling to deal with . In the end they were voicing the main issue “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will mention some of the most famous authors of the last century. They have all quite impacted literature of their period, have showed trends and problems which were normal to their nations and the times they were living in, and have made the audience meditate on the running ideology of moral, having them understand that it is far away from being flawless. One of the most fascinating feature of their writing is that in mostly they have evoked the person’s attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most exciting success stories is that of a well known writer John Cheever.
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be considered phenomenal as she has become the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is today spending a extensive part of her profit on charity, battling poverty and illness. 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 kind advice — to find a stable job. He was unaware of the idea that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having created a number of amazing fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less exactly list all authors who have made their contribution to the world’s literature. They have been working and bringing ideas directly into the heads of the people, and in this way were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not creating for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant part in molding the culture and the views of a society of the 20th century.