Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cease of the Second World War the public started to deem that the world’s basic rules are understandable and coherent . Both global politics and social relations were relying on the ideas of development, beneficial innovations , belief in the rational , understanding , innovations , and the potential to ground any activity from a logical viewpoint . However , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to deteriorate and now , 40 years after , we live in a new kind of reality .
We without any problems spot all innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we infrequently comprehend the fact that there are some thoughts which the author has put behind those solutions . The essence of the expected change was initially noticed by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the many authors whose poems have served for entertainment , there have been several of them who have given the planet a new picture of the future . They have more effectively than others other people shaped and formulated new ideas and have in the end done a fresh intellectual and emotional analysis of the future. They have noticed issues in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a array of problems, which were going on without being noted . They have assisted us to think of the new challenges , and gave us new hope .
These were the authors who have determined the vision of the entire generation, which has observed the period of drastic change; change, which was seen as anarchy at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most tormenting questions of the past epoch ; those issues , which the people , having survived through the global wars and unseen violence , was reluctant to face . In the end they were voicing the main question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this work we will mention some of the most prominent authors of the last century. They have all much influenced literature of their period, have reflected looks and problems which were essential to their countries and the period they were living in, and have made the readers think about the running set of values, having them understand that it is far away from being perfect. One of the most exciting aspects of their writing is that in often they have awake the readers’ attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most exciting success writings is that of a brilliant author John Cheever.
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be named special as she has become the first writer in the world to earn $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is today spending a huge part of her profit on charity, battling 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 agreed to print her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to look for a stable job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having written a number of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This article is not able to name and more or less exactly list all writers who have offered their gift to the today’s literature. They have been writing and presenting ideas exactly into the minds of the people, and in this way were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these writers were not creating for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant role in creating the culture and the looks of a society of the 20th century.