Famous writers. Galaxy of geniuses

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

It is impossible to deny the fact that the nature of the approaching or imminent changes in the life of human civilization was the first to be felt by those who were ahead of their time - famous writers.

Writers are liaisons between the future and the present

Among the endless multitude of writers of each era, there are those authors who, in addition to all the recognized merits of fiction, generously give humanity a new vision. It was they who, much more convincingly than scientists, formulated new concepts and ideas and, as a result, created the intellectual and emotional argumentation of the future. They were able to see his challenge in the everyday and mundane, to expose unsightly problems, to point out lingering conflicts, helping to realize the coming threats and give new hopes.

Great writers of world literature

This list is not perfect. It contains individual famous writers who can be safely called the greatest writers of all times and peoples.

• Ancient Greek Homer. There is an assumption that he was completely blind, but all his stories, by the way, which were recorded only 400 years later, are in demand and relevant to this day. A whole creative team of writers worked on his poems, who often added something about the Odyssey and the Trojan War.
• Victor Hugo. The most famous of the poets of the 19th century, one of the greatest authors of French prose.
• Miguel de Cervantes. His main work is the well-known novel The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha. However, the author also wrote more than one collection of stories, the novel "Persiles and Sichismund" and the romantic inspirational novel "Galatea".
• German fiction would not be complete without Goethe. His followers actively used the ideas of the great creator to form their own style. The writer has created four novels, an infinite number of poems, scientific essays and non-fiction.
• The father of native Russian literature (without shades of Western influence) - A. S. Pushkin. Although the great creator was a poet, he also wrote with inspiration in all genres, so he can be called paramount and deservedly - the famous Russian writer.
• William Shakespeare. The influence of this writer on world and English literature is undeniable. It is still officially recognized as one of the most translated. His complete essay has already been translated into 70 languages.

Pleiad of geniuses of poetry and prose

The 19th century was so rich in talent that it managed to give rise to an outstanding galaxy of prose and poetry geniuses. The most famous writers and poets of Russia: N. M. Karamzin, A. S. Griboyedov, A. S. Pushkin, K. F. Ryleev, M. Yu. Lermontov, N. A. Nekrasov, N. V. Gogol, A. A. Fet, I. S. Turgenev, M. E. S altykov-Shchedrin, L. N. Tolstoy, N. G. Chernyshevsky, A. P. Chekhov, F. M. Dostoevsky.

Writers who have had a significant impact on English literature

Famous English writers have created a great many outstanding works in which they laid a powerful message, so they have retained their relevance today.

• Thomas More, writer, poet and translator. Author of many translations from ancient Greek and poems, as well as 280 Latin epigrams.
• Jonathan Swift, a brave publicist and brilliant satirist, poet, public figure, is known to the general public as the creator of Gulliver's Travels.
• Samuel Richardson, founding father of British romantic "sensual" literature. With his three whale novels, he undoubtedly formed a stable foundation for his imperishable world fame.
• Henry Fielding, founder of the English realistic novel, prolific, profound playwright.
• W alter Scott, all-round personality, warrior, writer, poet, advocacy and history specialist, founder of the historical novel of the 19th century.

Writers who changed the world

After the horrors of World War II, it seemed to everyone that henceforth the world would rest on clear, simple and reasonable principles. Social relations, global politics were based on the modernization of progress and positive trends, faith in education and science. However, since the early 1970s, the idealisticthe world began to collapse inexorably, and people came to know another reality. Famous writers and poets, who are defining the mindset of the new generation, have taken the brunt of the dramatic changes that have come.

The soul and mind of modernity

Below is a list of those writers who have defined the soul and mind of our time.

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (lawyer). Main works: "The General in His Labyrinth", "Nobody Writes to the Colonel", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Falling Leaves" and many others.
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (teacher of physics and mathematics, famous Russian writer). Major works: Cancer Ward, Red Wheel, In the First Circle and the more than provocative Gulag Archipelago. Famous writers often fell into disgrace with the ruling ranks.
• Tony Morrison (editor). Main works: "Darling", "Resin Scarecrow", "Jazz", "Love", "Paradise".
• Salman Rushdie (philologist). Main works: "Shame", "Rage", "Children of Midnight", "Shalimar the Clown", "Satanic Verses".
• Milan Kundera (director). Main works: "Ignorance", "Immortality", "Slowness", "Funny Loves" and others.
• Orhan Pamuk (architect). Main works: "Istanbul", "White Fortress", "Other Colors", "New Life", "Snow", "Black Book".
• Michel Houellebecq (environmental engineer). Main works: "Platform", "Elementary Particles", "Island Possibility", "Lanzarote"
• JK Rowling (translator). 7 Harry Potter novels.

• Umberto Eco (philologist). Main works: "Baudolino", "The Name of the Rose", "The Island of the Eve", "Foucault's Pendulum".
• Carlos Castaneda (anthropologist). Major works: "The Gift of the Eagle", "The Power of Silence", "Special Reality", "Tales of Power", "Inner Fire", "The Wheel of Time", "The Second Circle of Power" and others. The category "famous writers" would be left out without mentioning this outstanding person.