The most famous writers of the 20th century

The past century has given mankind many talented authors. Writers of the 20th century created in the era of world social upheavals and revolutions, which inevitably found its reflection in their writings. Any historical event influenced literature - if you recall, the largest number of military novels was written during the Second World War and in the next 15 years.

The most famous Russian writers of the 20th century are Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Mikhail Bulgakov. Solzhenitsyn opened the whole horror of the Soviet camps in his work "The Gulag Archipelago" to the world, for which he was subjected to harsh criticism and persecution in our country. Later, Solzhenitsyn was deported to Germany, and he lived and worked abroad for a long time. Russian citizenship was returned to him only in 1990 with a special presidential decree, after which he was able to return to his homeland.

It is interesting that in our country the 20th century became the era of writers and poets in exile - in different years Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Balmont, Raisa Blokh and many others turned up abroad. Mikhail Bulgakov became famous throughout the world for the novel "The Master and Margarita" and the story "The Heart of a Dog." It is noteworthy that he wrote the novel "Master and Margarita" for more than 10 years - the foundation of the work was created at once, but the revision continued for many years, until the writer's death. Mortally ill Bulgakov brought the novel to perfection, but he did not finish this work, so in the work you can find literary blunders. And still the novel "Master and Margarita" became, perhaps, the best work of this genre for the entire 20 century.

Popular English writers of the 20th century are, above all, the queen of the detective Agatha Christie and the creator of the best dystopia, Animal Farm, George Orwell. England at all times gave the world literary geniuses, such as William Shakespeare, Herbert Wells, Walter Scott and many others. The last century was no exception, and people in all countries are now reading the books of John Tolkien, Pratchett Terry, John Wyndome and Arthur Clark.

In general, writers of the 20th century were not at all like their predecessors - authors of the 19th century. Literary works have become more diverse, and if in the 19th century there were only 3-4 main directions, then in the 20th they became an order of magnitude larger. Stylistic and ideological diversity gave birth to many genres and currents, and the search for a new language gave us a whole pleiad of thinkers and philosophers, such as Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka.

Russian writers of the 20th century confined themselves mainly to three stylistic trends - realism, modernism and the avant-garde. An interesting phenomenon in the Russian literature of the last century was the revival of Romanticism in its original form, most fully reflected in the works of Alexander Green, whose works literally permeate an ineradicable dreaminess and exoticism.

Writers of the 20th century left a notable mark in world literature, and we can only hope that the authors of the twenty-first century will be no worse than their predecessors. Perhaps, somewhere already there is a new Gorky, Pasternak or Hemingway.