Authors of the 20th Century
Immediately after the cessation of the Second World War the public began to consider that the world’s ground values are understandable and justifiable . Both global politics and social relations were counting on the principles of development, positive changes , belief in science , awareness , technical advancement , and the knowledge of how to reason any activity from a rational standpoint . Nevertheless , starting from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and currently , 40 years thereafter , we dwell in a new type of reality .
We without any problems spot those innovations which are given us by new technology, but we barely realize the fact that there are specific ideas standing behind those solutions . The nature of the upcoming change was at first tracked by those people, who more often than not lived anteceding their time – philosophers and authors. Among the numerous authors whose books have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given the planet a new vision . They have better than others other people molded and formulated fresh thoughts and have ultimately done a fresh intellectual and perceptual grounding of the future. They have found issues in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a set of problems, which were existing without being noted . They have assisted us to realize the new problems , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have formed the vision of the entire generation, which has live through the times of cardial change; change, which was perceived as mayhem at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have attracted our attention to the most vital problems of the last epoch ; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having gone through the world wars and unprecedented number of deaths, was unwilling to meet . Lastly 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 writers of the last century. They have all significantly affected literature of their time, have manifested tendencies and problems which were normal to their countries and the period of time they were living in, and have motivated the readers meditate on the existing ideology of values, having them understand that it is far from being genuine. One of the most interesting angle of their writing is that in mostly they have evoked the audience attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most exciting success writings is that of a brilliant writer 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 publishing fairytales. She is currently spending a great part of her money on charity, fighting poverty and diseases. The plot of the book was found while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to print her book, she has given her 1500 pounds together with a kind advice — to find a permanent job. He was unaware of the idea that the young writer would be able to make money of writing. Joann has showed the opposite - having produced a number of exceptional 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 writers who have given their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and presenting ideas exactly into the minds of the millions, and therefore were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not writing for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable part in molding the culture and the vision of a society of the 20th century.