Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the end of the Second World War the society started to deem that the world’s essential principles are plain and logical . Both politics and social relations were depending on the principles of progress , good innovations , confidence in the logical , awareness , technical progress , and the ability to reason any activity from a rational standpoint . Nevertheless , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to degrade and now , 40 years after , we find ourselves in a changed kind of existence .
We without any problems mark those changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we rarely are aware of the fact that there are certain ideas which the author has put behind those solutions . The nature of the future adjustment was initially spotted by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived ahead of their time – writers and authors. Among the numerous authors whose books have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given people a new vision . They have more effectively than others other people created and voiced new thoughts and have finally molded a brand new intelligent and emotional substantiation of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were dragging on without being spotted . They have helped us to think of the new challenges , and have given us new hope .
These were the authors who have determined the mindset of the entire generation, which has live through the times of cardial change; change, which was perceived as anarchy at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most tormenting dilemmas of the previous century; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having lived through the world wars and unprecedented number of deaths, was afraid to deal with . Lastly they were voicing the main question “What will our future be like?”
In this work we will mention some of the most popular writers of the last century. They have all quite impacted literature of their epoch, have revealed trends and dilemmas which were typical to their countries and the period they existed in, and have motivated the audience meditate on the real ideology of values, having them understand that it is far from being ideal. One of the most exciting feature of their writing is that in mostly they have evoked the audience attention in books and written works. in this case one of the most exciting success writings is that of a famous author John Cheever.
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 extensive part of her profit on charity, battling poverty and illness. The idea of the book was created 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 friendly piece of advice — to look for a permanent job. He was hesitant of the idea that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having written a series of exceptional fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This work cannot enumerate and more or less exactly list all writers who have given their gift to the today’s literature. They have been working and presenting ideas exactly into the heads of the millions, and in this way were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant role in shaping the culture and the looks of a civilization of the 20th century.