John Galsworthy his life and work. Forsyte Saga and Modern Comedy.Forsytism as a phenomenon of the English society
Chapter 2. Writing merely for his own amusement around In general prose after the 2nd World War can be divided into two categories. On the one side there was the realisitc and naturalistic way of describing things, on the other side there was literature full of black humor and strange phantasies.
Kurt Vonnegut was one of the many authors to publish anti - war novels because of his own experiences. His most famous book is „Slaughterhouse - Five“ (1969), which is about a group of prisoners in Germany during 2nd World War who are suddenly sent to a fictitious planet, a subject that is very similar to Science- Fiction Literature.
Although ist importance is very controversial, Science - Fiction and Fantasy Literature should not be forgotten when talking about EnglishLiterature. The history of Science - Fiction started alread in the 1920s but it reached the peak of ist popularity in the 1950s and 60s. While Science - Fiction is oriented towards the future and a world full of roboters and machines, Fantasy Literature describes a forgotten world, full of fairies, dwarfs and other magical and mystical beings. An example for Science - Fiction is Arthur C. Clarke’s „Odysse in Space“ published in 1968. The most famous EnglishFantasy author was probably Marion Zimmer Bradley who died only a few years ago. In her trilogy „The Mists of Avalon“, „The Forests of Avalon“ and „The Lady of Avalon“ she combines legends about King Arthur and his court with ancient Celtic legends about godesses, magicians and faeries.
As America had always been a nation of immigrants it was just natural that some of these immigrants were also writers and even very successful ones who achieved a lot of fame in the U.S.. Probably the best example for this is Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian who first emigrated to Germany and later to America. Thus his literary work is divided into three sections: the Russian, the German and the Englishone. His most famous, but also his most scandalous novel „Lolita“ was published in 1955 and belongs to the Englishpart of his work. Lolita is about a college professor in his late 30s who desperately falls in love with his teenage stepdaughter and who finally manages to start a sexual relationship with her. This topic was so scandalous that Englishpublishing companies refused to print the book so that it had to be published in Paris and was sold in the U.S. only secretly. But critics defended it and praised it highly for ist brilliant prose style so that in 1958 it was published in America as well. „Lolita“ was so successful there that Nabokov could retire and become a full- time author.
