During the
20th Century, and after the group of transicion authors as , S. Butler,
G. Moore, Conrad, Kipling, Wells, Bennet, Galsworthy, and Forster,
appeared a generation of writers known as " The Innovators of the Novel".
Within this
group we can name: Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson
and Virginia Woolf, James
Joyce, Aldous Huxley, and
George Orwell.
The
modernity of the English Novel appeared in the Period between the two wars.
It was thanks to a group of writers so important as D.H.
Lawrence,Virginia Woolf, James
Joyce and Aldous Huxley. Saying this words,
I do not pretend to say that the productivity of Henry James, Thomas Hardy,
Joseph Conrad,Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster was relevant
during their respective ages but It should face the facts that the group
of writers between the two wars
is the one who stablished the bases of the new forms
of Novel. These new forms were, for example: the Bergsoniana idea of the
passing of the time, the new concept of the concatenation of the conscience
derived from William James, and in which David Daiches considers the break
of the general sense of the meaning, the loss which involve for the present-day
writer the fact that the nowadays men´s beliefs do not have the objective
validity than the ones Jane Austin dealt with her contemporarys.
The period of time in which these Novelists appeared was very unstable.
After a very dificult peace, it appeared a descent of the ideals which
derived in an economical recession in the end of the twenties. After that
it emerged the European Dictatorships, which perturved the world conscience.
The individualism, the frivolity, the investigator and scientific criticism
of this period were manifested in the works of Lawrence,
Joyce,
Virginia
Woolf and Aldous Huxley, and it could also
be added the narrations of George Orwell.
