Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the denouement of the Second World War people started to feel that the world’s essential ethical foundations are simple and justifiable . Both politics and social relations were counting on the thoughts of gain , good change , faith in science , enlightenment , progress , and the potential to substantiate any phenomenon from a rational standpoint . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world commenced to deteriorate and now , 40 years after , we live in a changed kind of existence .
We easily note all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we barely comprehend the fact that there are concrete thoughts which the author has put behind those solutions . The core of the upcoming change was at first found by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – philosophers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose works have served for pleasure , there have been a few who have given the planet a new vision . They have more effectively than others other authors molded and worded fresh thoughts and have ultimately created formed a fresh intelligent and emotional substantiation of the future. They have spotted problems in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a array of problems, which were existing without being noted . They have aided us to become aware of the new issues , and have given us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have determined the minds of the entire generation, which has observed the period of dramatic change; change, which was seen as anarchy at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most problematic dilemmas of the past era ; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having gone through the global wars and wild number of deaths, was afraid to face . Finally they were raising the most important issue “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will specify several of the most popular authors of the last century. They have all quite affected literature of their epoch, have depicted trends and dilemmas which were essential to their nations and the period they lived in, and have motivated the audience think about the actual philosophy of values, having them realize that it is far from being perfect. One of the most exciting angle of their work is that in often they have awake the audience interest in books and written matter. In this aspect one of the most interesting success writings is that of a well known writer John Cheever.
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called unique as she has become the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is currently spending a noticeable 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 agreed to bring out her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind 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. Joann has proved the opposite - having published a series of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This work is not able to name and more or less exactly list all writers who have provided their gift to the today’s literature. They have been writing and presenting ideas directly into the heads of the people, and thus were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not writing for enjoyment only, but they were also playing a significant role in creating the culture and the perception of a civilization of the 20th century.