Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the denouement of the Second World War the public commenced to believe that the world’s ground rules are clear and justifiable . Both world politics and social relations were relying on the ideas of development, beneficial change , belief in the logical , understanding , innovations , and the knowledge of how to reason any happening from a logical standpoint . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world commenced to degrade and now , 40 years thereafter , we live in a different kind of existence .
We effortlessly note all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we almost never are aware of the fact that there are concrete thoughts which the author has put behind those solutions . The essence of the upcoming change was first spotted by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived anteceding their time – poets and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for amusement , there have been several of them who have given the planet a new vision . They have better than others other people molded and formulated fresh suggestions and have finally molded a new intellectual and emotional grounding of the future. They have noticed problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a set of problems, which were existing without being noted . They have aided us to become aware of the new challenges , and have given us new hope .
These were the authors who have shaped the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of drastic change; change, which was perceived as disarray at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most burning problems of the past era ; those questions , which the humankind , having lived through the global wars and unseen number of deaths, was afraid to meet . Finally they were voicing the most important question “What will happen in the future”?
In this paper we will specify several of the most well known authors of the 20th century. They have all quite influenced literature of their time, have revealed tendencies and problems which were essential to their countries and the period they were living in, and have made the readers analyze the existing system of moral, having them realize that it is far from being flawless. One of the most interesting aspects of their writing is that in often they have evoked the readers’ attention in books and written works. in this case one of the most exciting success stories is that of a brilliant author Anne Bronte .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by publishing fairytales. She is today spending a noticeable 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 decided to publish her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to find a permanent job. He was doubtful of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having written a series of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading.
This work is not able to enumerate and more or less exactly list all writers who have given their contribution to the world’s literature. They have been working and putting ideas exactly into the thoughts of the millions, and thus were influencing the future. therefore, as we can see, these writers were not creating for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable role in molding the culture and the looks of a civilization of the 20th century.