Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cessation of the Second World War people commenced to believe that the world’s core rules are clear and justifiable . Both global politics and social relations were relying on the thoughts of progress , beneficial innovations , faith in the rational , understanding , technical progress , and the knowledge of how to reason any activity from a rational viewpoint . Nevertheless , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to deteriorate and now , 40 years thereafter , we find ourselves in a different type of actuality .
We without any problems notice all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we seldom comprehend the fact that there are certain thoughts which the author has put behind those technological solutions. The essence of the upcoming change was at first noticed by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – poets and authors. Among the numerous authors whose poems have served for amusement , there have been a few who have given the humankind a new vision . They have better than others other people molded and formulated authentic thoughts and have in the end molded a brand new intellectual and emotional grounding of the future. They have found issues in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a set of problems, which were dragging on without being noticed . They have assisted us to realize the new issues , and gave us new ambitions .
These were the authors who have determined the minds of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of dramatic change; change, which was perceived as chaos at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have turned our attention to the most vital dilemmas of the previous epoch ; those dilemmas , which the humankind , having survived through the world wars and wild violence , was reluctant to meet . Finally they were raising the most critical issue “What will happen in the future”?
In this work we will mention several of the most popular writers of the last century. They have all quite impacted literature of their period, have revealed looks and dilemmas which were normal to their people and the times they lived in, and have made the readers analyze the actual ideology of values, having them realize that it is far away from being genuine. One of the most interesting feature of their work is that in often they have awake the readers’ interest in books and written matter. In this aspect one of the most interesting success writings is that of a well known author Anne Bronte .
The success of Joan Rowling can be considered unique as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to make $1 billion by authoring fairytales. She is currently spending a extensive part of her profit 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 decided to bring out her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a kind piece of advice — to look for a stable job. He was hesitant of the idea that the young writer would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has proved the opposite - having written a series of exceptional fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading people get back to reading.
This article cannot name and more or less precisely list all writers who have offered their gift to the world’s literature. They have been writing and putting ideas directly into the heads of the millions, and therefore were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not creating for enjoyment only, but they were also playing a significant role in creating the culture and the views of a civilization of the 20th century.
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