Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the end of the Second World War the society began to deem that the world’s essential rules are simple and consistent . Both global politics and social relations were relying on the ideas of progress , beneficial innovations , trust in science , enlightenment , technical innovations , and the knowledge of how to explain any happening from a rational point of view . Nevertheless , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to deteriorate and now , 40 years later , we live in a new kind of reality .
We effortlessly notice those innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we seldom are aware of the fact that there are specific thoughts which the author has put behind those inventions . The essence of the upcoming adjustment was initially noticed by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the many authors whose works have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given the planet a new picture of the future . They have better than others other people created and voiced fresh suggestions and have ultimately created formed a brand new intellectual and perceptual grounding of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a set of problems, which were going on without being spotted . They have aided us to realize the new issues , and have given us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have shaped the minds of the entire generation, which has live through the times of dramatic change; change, which was viewed as disarray at the start of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most problematic problems of the last era ; those issues , which the people , having gone through the world wars and unprecedented number of deaths, was afraid to face . In the end they were voicing the main issue “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will specify some of the most prominent authors of the last century. They have all significantly affected literature of their epoch, have offered tendencies and problems which were essential to their people and the period of time they lived in, and have made the readers analyze the real set of values, having them realize that it is far away from being flawless. One of the most fascinating angle of their writing is that in mostly they have evoked the readers’ interest in books and written works. In this aspect one of the most interesting success works is that of a famous writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be considered unique as she has become the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is today spending a extensive part of her earnings on charity, battling poverty and diseases. The idea of the book was found while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to bring out her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a loving piece of advice — to find a permanent job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having written a series of amazing fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less precisely list all writers who have offered their gift to the today’s literature. They have been working and presenting ideas directly into the minds of the people, and in this way were influencing the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a significant part in creating the culture and the views of a society of the 20th century.