Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the denouement of the Second World War people started to consider that the world’s core ethical foundations are simple and consistent . Both politics and social relations were relying on the thoughts of development, beneficial change , faith in the logical , understanding , technological innovations , and the knowledge of how to reason any phenomenon from a rational standpoint . Nevertheless , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to change and currently , 40 years after , we find ourselves in a changed kind of actuality .
We effortlessly mark all innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we infrequently come to realize the fact that there are some ideas which the author has put behind those inventions . The essence of the upcoming change was first found by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the multiple authors whose works have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given people a new vision . They have better than others other authors created and worded fresh suggestions and have ultimately created formed a new intellectual and perceptual grounding of the future. They have found problems in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a number of problems, which were going on without being spotted . They have aided us to realize the new problems , and have given us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have shaped the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of cardial change; change, which was perceived as disarray at the start of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most vital questions of the previous epoch ; those dilemmas , which the people , having lived through the world wars and unseen number of deaths, was reluctant to face . In the end they were raising the most critical dilemma “What will happen in the future”?
In this work we will specify several of the most popular writers of the 20th century. They have all much impacted literature of their epoch, have depicted trends and dilemmas which were classic to their nations and the times they lived in, and have motivated the audience analyze the real system of values, having them realize that it is far away from being perfect. One of the most important feature of their writing is that in mostly they have awake the people attention in books and written matter. in this case one of the most exciting success stories is that of a famous author John Cheever.
The success of Joan Rowling can be named unique as she has become the first writer in the world to make $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is now spending a noticeable part of her earnings on charity, battling 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 bring out her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to find a stable job. He was hesitant of the idea that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having written a series of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading people get back to reading books.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less accurately list all writers who have made their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been working and putting ideas directly into the minds of the people, and thus were influencing the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant part in shaping the culture and the perception of a civilization of the 20th century.