Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cessation of the Second World War people started to believe that the world’s essential ethical foundations are simple and logical . Both world politics and social relations were counting on the concepts of progress , positive changes , confidence in the rational , awareness , advancement , and the knowledge of how to ground any happening from a logical viewpoint . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to change and currently , 40 years after , we live in a new type of existence .
We easily mark all innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we almost never come to realize the fact that there are some ideas which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The core of the expected adjustment was initially found by those people, who as a rule of thumb lived anteceding their time – writers and authors. Among the multiple authors whose poems have served for entertainment , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new vision . They have better than others other people shaped and worded fresh ideas and have in the end created formed a new intelligent and emotional substantiation of the future. They have noted problems in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a number of problems, which were going on without being noted . They have aided us to realize the new issues , and sent us new hope .
These were the authors who have shaped the vision of the entire generation, which has observed the period of dramatic change; change, which was seen as mayhem at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most burning dilemmas of the last century; those problems , which the humankind , having lived through the global wars and wild violence , was reluctant to face . Lastly they were voicing the most critical issue “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this paper we will mention several of the most famous authors of the last century. They have all quite influenced literature of their epoch, have showed looks and dilemmas which were essential to their countries and the period they were living in, and have motivated the audience think about the existing set of moral, having them realize that it is far away from being perfect. One of the most exciting angle of their work is that in mostly they have risen the person’s attention in books and written matter. In this aspect one of the most exciting success works is that of a famous author John Cheever.
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called special as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is today spending a extensive part of her earnings on charity, confronting poverty and illness. The plot of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to bring out her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a friendly advice — to look for a permanent job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young author would be able to make a living off of writing. Joann has proved the opposite - having published a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This paper is not able to name and more or less accurately list all authors who have provided their gift to the today’s literature. They have been writing and presenting ideas directly into the minds of the people, and in this way were shaping the future. therefore, as we can see, these writers were not writing for enjoyment only, but they were also playing a significant part in molding the culture and the vision of a society of the 20th century.
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