Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the end of the Second World War people started to think that the world’s ground values are plain and logical . Both general politics and social relations were depending on the principles of progress , beneficial innovations , faith in the logical , awareness , progress , and the ability to explain any activity from a rational standpoint . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world has begun to degrade and now , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a changed kind of reality .
We without any problems mark all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we infrequently realize the fact that there are some concepts which the author has put behind those inventions . The core of the expected adjustment was first tracked by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – philosophers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose books have served for amusement , there have been several of them who have given people a new vision . They have more effectively than others other authors shaped and worded fresh suggestions and have finally created formed a brand new intellectual and emotional grounding of the future. They have seen problems in the mundane of our lives and have opened a number of problems, which were dragging on without being noticed . They have assisted us to realize the new challenges , and have given us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have determined the vision of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of dramatic change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most vital dilemmas of the last century; those issues , which the people , having gone through the global wars and unprecedented sufferings , was unwilling to face . In the end they were formulating the most important dilemma “What will our future look like?”
In this work we will specify some of the most prominent authors of the 20th century. They have all much influenced literature of their time, have showed trends and dilemmas which were typical to their people and the period they lived in, and have motivated the readers analyze the actual set of values, having them understand that it is far from being perfect. One of the most exciting angle of their work is that in often they have risen the readers’ interest in books and written works. from this angle one of the most exciting success works is that of a famous writer Lewis Carroll .
The success of Joan Rowling can be called phenomenal as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is now spending a great part of her earnings on charity, confronting 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 look for a stable job. He was unaware of the idea that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having produced a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading.
This article cannot enumerate and more or less exactly list all writers who have offered their gift to the today’s literature. They have been working and putting ideas exactly into the minds of the millions, and therefore were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these authors were not writing for entertainment only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the views of a civilization of the 20th century.