Creative Writing - Chapter 28

There were three main authors of creative writing in the Age of Anxiety; Oswald Spengler, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka. Spengler was born in 1880 and died in 1936. He was a historian and a philosipher. He wrote "Decline of the West". "Decline of the West" is about the idea of Muslims, Jews, and Christians (as well the Persians before them) are Magian (Mediterranean civilizations of antiquity such as Ancient Greece and Rome). The book also describes modern westerners as being Faustian, meaning lucky.

T.S. Eliot was born in 1888 and died in 1965. He was considered a poet and a critic. Eliot is known for his poem "The Wasteland". "The Wasteland" was published in 1922 and is considered one of the biggest poems of the 20th century. The poem shifts back and forth from a satire to a prophecy while Eliot talks about multiple cultures in this poem.

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 and died in 1924. Kafka is known for his short stories. One of Kafka's famous stories often studied in American colleges is "The Metamorphosis". Kafka wrote this in 1915 and is about a salesmen who wakes up in his bed as an insect. The story ends when the main character collapses and dies.