Famous writers. Pleiades of geniuses

It can not be denied that the nature of the approaching or imminent changes in the life of human civilization was first felt by those who were ahead of their time - the famous writers.

Literators - connected between the future and the present

Among the infinite number of writers of every era are those authors who, in addition to all recognized virtues of artistic prose, generously give humanity new vision. They are much more convincing scientists formulated new concepts, ideas and, as a result, created intellectual and emotional arguments for the future. They managed to see his challenge in everyday and everyday, put unsightly problems on the show, point out undamped conflicts, helping to understand future threats and give new hopes.

Great writers of world literature

This list is not perfect. It contains some famous writers, who can be called the greatest writers of all time and people.

• Ancient Greek Homer. There is a suggestion that he was completely blind, but all his stories, incidentally, that were recorded only 400 years later, are in demand and are relevant to this day. Above his poems worked a whole creative team of writers, 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 Clever Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha". However, the author also wrote more than one collection of short stories, the novel Persiles and Sikhismunda 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 his own style. The writer created four novels, an infinite number of poems, scientific essays and documentary works.
• The father of primordially Russian literature (without shades of Western influence) is AS Pushkin. Although the great creator was a poet, he also wrote inspirationally in all genres, so he can be called, first and deservedly, the famous Russian writer.
• William Shakespeare. The influence of this writer on the world and English literature is undeniable. It is still and officially recognized as one of the most translated. His complete work is already translated into 70 languages.

Pleiades of geniuses in poetry and prose

The 19th century was so rich in talents that it managed to generate an outstanding galaxy of geniuses of prose and poetry. The most famous writers and poets of Russia: NM Karamzin, AS Griboedov, AS Pushkin, KF Ryleev, M. Yu. Lermontov, NA Nekrasov, N. V. Gogol, A A. Fet, I. S. Turgenev, ME Saltykov-Shchedrin, L. N. Tolstoy, N. G. Chernyshevsky, A. P. Chekhov, F. M. Dostoevsky.

Literators having a significant impact on English literature

Famous English writers have created a great number of outstanding works, in which a powerful message has been laid, so they have remained relevant in our days.

• Thomas More, writer, poet and translator. He is the author of many translations from the ancient Greek language and poems, as well as 280 Latin epigrams.
• Jonathan Swift, a brave publicist and genius satirist, poet, public figure, a sign of the general public as the creator of "Gulliver's Travels."
• Samuel Richardson, the founding father of the romantic "sensual" literature of Great Britain. With his three novel-whales, he undoubtedly formed a stable foundation of his imperishable world glory.
• Henry Fielding, the founder of the English realistic novel, is a prolific, profound playwright.
• Walter Scott, a well-rounded personality, a warrior, writer, poet, specialist in matters of advocacy and history, the founder of the historical novel of the 19th century.

Writers who changed the world

After the horrors of the Second World War, it seemed to everyone that from now on the world will rest on all understandable, simple and reasonable principles. Social relations, global politics were based on the modernization of progress and positive trends, faith in education, science. However, from the beginning of the 1970s, the idealistic world began to collapse inexorably, and people learned another reality. Famous writers and poets who determine the mood of the new generation took the main blow of the dramatic changes that have come.

The soul and mind of our time

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

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (lawyer). The main works: "The General in his labyrinth", "Nobody writes to the Colonel", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Falling Foliage" and many others.
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (teacher of physics and mathematics, famous Russian writer). The main works: "Cancer Corps", "Red Wheel", "In the First Circle" and more than provocative "Gulag Archipelago". Famous writers often fell into disgrace with the ruling order.
• Tony Morrison (editor). The main works: "Favorite", "Smoljanoe Chuchelko", "Jazz", "Love", "Paradise".
• Salman Rushdie (philologist). The main works: "Shame", "Rage", "Children of midnight", "Clown Shalimar", "Satanic verses".
• Milan Kundera (director). The main works: "Ignorance", "Immortality", "Slow", "Funny love" and others.
• Orhan Pamuk (architect). Major works: Istanbul, White Fortress, Other Colors, New Life, Snow, Black Book.
• Michelle Welbec (Environmental Engineer). Major works: "Platform", "Elementary Particles", "Opportunity of the Island", "Lanzarote".
• Joanne Rowling (translator). 7 novels about Harry Potter.

• Umberto Eco (philologist). The main works: "Baudolino", "The Name of the Rose", "The Island the Day Before", "The Foucault Pendulum".
• Carlos Castaneda (anthropologist). Major works: "The Gift of the Eagle", "Silence Power", "Special Reality", "Tales of Power", "Inner Fire", "The Wheel of Time", "The Second Circle of Power" and others. The category of "famous writers" would have been deprived without mentioning this outstanding person.