Otázka: British and American writers of 20th century
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): Natálie V.
British authors
Modernists:
- writing experimental prose
- contrasted with realism
- focused pf inner life and subjectivity
- they used stream of consciousness (wanted to catch the ideas of authors as they were)
Virginia Woolf
- Dalloway, To the lighthouse
James Joyce
- interior monologues, hard to understand the relationship between his characters,
- Ulysses (a paraphrase of Odysseia)
Fiction:
George Orwell
- born in India, real name Eric Arthur Blair
- wrote allegorical novels about totalitarian systems (Russia, Stalin era)
- deals with social injustice, democratic beliefs
- Animal farm, 1984
Angry young men:
- middle class British playwrights and novelists
- weren’t happy with establishment
- less radical than Beat generation
- Kingsley Amis, John Osborne
Detective:
Agatha Christie
- detective stories, the queen of crime created characters Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple
- many movies based on her books
- The murder on the Orient express
Drama:
Samuel Beckett
- Irish novelist, lived in Paris
- horrific and tragic images
- barrier to communicate
- nonsensible language, chaos
- Nobel prize in literature
- Waiting for Godot
American authors
The lost generation:
- during roaring 20s, they were young in the war
- wrote about disillusion and pessimism
- destroyed, depressed, felt lost in the society
Ernest Hemingway
- adventurous life, lots of travelling
- wrote very simply (as he was a journalist)
- method of iceberg
- The old man and the sea
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- alcoholic, lived in Paris, never fought in war
- The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck
- Pulitzer prize for drama
- Of mice and men
The beat generation
- after WW2, hippies movement, rock and roll, pop music, against materialism of society, used the word hipster first
Jack Kerouac
- On the road
