Authors of the 20th Century
Right after the denouement of the Second World War the society began to feel that the world’s core principles are plain and logical . Both global politics and social relations were counting on the thoughts of development, positive change , belief in the logical , awareness , hi-tech advancement , and the ability to explain any activity from a logical viewpoint . However , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to degrade and now , 40 years later , we live in a transformed type of actuality .
We effortlessly notice all innovations which are brought to us by new technology, but we rarely realize the fact that there are certain thoughts standing behind those solutions . The essence of the expected change was initially found by those people, who as a rule lived anteceding their time – philosophers and authors. Among the many authors whose poems have served for amusement , there have been several of them who have given the planet a new picture of the future . They have better than others other authors shaped and worded new ideas and have in the end molded a new intelligent and perceptual grounding of the future. They have spotted issues in the mundane of our lives and have shed light onto a array of problems, which were dragging on without being noticed . They have aided us to think of the new issues , and gave us new aspirations .
These were the authors who have shaped the mindset of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of cardial change; change, which was perceived as anarchy at the dawn of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most tormenting problems of the previous era ; those questions , which the people , having lived through the global wars and unprecedented violence , was unwilling to deal with . In the end they were voicing the the most topical question “What will our future look like?”
In this work we will specify some of the most popular authors of the last century. They have all greatly impacted literature of their period, have manifested looks and problems which were relevant to their countries and the period they lived in, and have motivated the readers analyze the running ideology of moral, having them realize that it is far from being perfect. One of the most important feature of their work is that in often they have awake the readers’ attention in books and written matter. from this angle one of the most interesting success writings is that of a brilliant author Anne Bronte .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be named 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 extensive part of her profit on charity, confronting 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 friendly piece of advice — to find a stable job. He was hesitant of the fact that the young author would be able to make money of writing books. Joann has showed the opposite - having produced a series of unparalleled fairytales, she has made the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This article is not able to name and more or less exactly list all authors who have given their gift to the nowadays literature. They have been writing and putting ideas exactly into the heads of the millions, and in this way were shaping the future. Thus, as we can see, these authors were not creating for entertainment only, but they were also playing a significant role in molding the culture and the perception of a civilization of the 20th century.
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