Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the cease of the Second World War people started to deem that the world’s ground ethical foundations are simple and justifiable . Both politics and social relations were counting on the ideas of gain , positive change , belief in science , awareness , technological advancement , and the knowledge of how to ground any happening from a analytical point of view . Nevertheless , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world commenced to degrade and now , 40 years thereafter , we dwell in a new type of existence .
We without any problems spot those changes which are given us by new technology, but we almost never realize the fact that there are specific concepts which the author has put behind those inventions . The nature of the future adjustment was initially tracked by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived anteceding their time – poets and authors. Among the many authors whose masterpieces have served for pleasure , there have been a few who have given the humankind a new picture of the future . They have more effectively than others other people created and formulated new ideas and have in the end created formed a brand new intelligent and emotional grounding of the future. They have found issues in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were existing without being noticed . They have assisted us to think of the new problems , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have shaped the mindset of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of cardial change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most burning issues of the past epoch ; those questions , which the humankind , having lived through the world wars and wild sufferings , was reluctant to deal with . Finally they were raising the most important question “What will happen in the future”?
In this work we will mention several of the most prominent authors of the last century. They have all quite affected literature of their period, have showed looks and problems which were typical to their society and the times they lived in, and have motivated the audience meditate on the running ideology of values, having them realize that it is far from being genuine. One of the most interesting feature of their writing is that in most cases they have awake the readers’ attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most interesting success works is that of a brilliant author Lewis Carroll .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be considered phenomenal as she has become the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is today spending a significant part of her earnings on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The idea of the book was created while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first agreed to print her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a loving piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was doubtful 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 series of unparalleled 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 exactly list all authors who have made their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and presenting ideas exactly into the thoughts of the millions, and therefore were influencing the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the vision of a civilization of the 20th century.