The most famous writers of the 20th century

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

The most famous Russian writers of the 20th century are Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Mikhail Bulgakov. Solzhenitsyn revealed to the world the whole horror of the Soviet camps in his work The Gulag Archipelago, for which he was subjected to the most severe criticism and persecution in our country. Later, Solzhenitsyn was deported to the FRG, and he lived and worked abroad for a long time. Russian citizenship was returned to him only in 1990 by 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 - Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Balmont, Raisa Bloch and many others ended up abroad in different years. Mikhail Bulgakov became famous throughout the world for his novel The Master and Margarita and the story Heart of a Dog. It is noteworthy that he wrote the novel "The Master and Margarita" for more than 10 years - the basis of the work was created immediately, but the editing continuedfor many years, until the writer's death. The terminally ill Bulgakov brought the novel to perfection, but did not have time to finish this work, so one can find literary blunders in the work. And still, the novel "The Master and Margarita" became, perhaps, the best work of this genre in the entire 20th century.

Popular English writers of the 20th century are, first of all, the detective queen Agatha Christie and the creator of the best dystopia "Animal Farm" George Orwell. England at all times has given the world literary geniuses such as William Shakespeare, HG Wells, W alter Scott and many others. The last century was no exception, and people in all countries are now reading books by John Tolkien, Pratchett Terry, John Windom and Arthur C. Clarke.

In general, the writers of the 20th century were not at all like their predecessors - the 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 there were an order of magnitude more. Stylistic and ideological diversity has given rise to many genres and trends, and the search for a new language has given us a galaxy of thinkers and philosophers, such as Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka.

Russian writers of the 20th century limited themselves mainly to three stylistic trends - realism, modernism and avant-garde. An interesting phenomenon in Russian literature of the last century was the revival of romanticism in its original form, this fact was most fully reflected in the works of Alexander Grin, whose works are literally permeated with ineradicable dreaminess andexoticism.

Writers of the 20th century have left a noticeable mark on world literature, and we can only hope that the authors of the 21st century will be no worse than their predecessors. Maybe somewhere a new Gorky, Pasternak or Hemingway is already creating.