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Ayn Rand.
Son nom est une sorte d'épreuve psychologique, il provoque inévitablement des réactions violentes d'admiration farouche ou de dénonciation indignée. Mais la neutralité semble impossible.
Both as a thinker and as an artist, Ayn Rand stormed against the tide. As a philosopher, she was an uncompromising champion of reason, individualism and pure capitalism. As a novelist, she was an impassioned Romantic. In both capacities, she was startling, original, unprecedented.
Le but de ses écrits, disait-elle, n'était pas de capturer une "tranche de vie", mais de projeter sa vision morale de l'homme "tel qu'il pourrait et devrait être".
And so the protagonists of her bestsellers ( We The Living , Anthem, The Fountainhead , and Atlas Shrugged ) are heroic, Promethean individualists-embattled titans in a world of envious Lilliputians.
Rejetant l'idée qu'un roman "sérieux" devait être ennuyeux, elle a mis en scène ses thèmes philosophiques dans des intrigues complexes pleines de couleurs, de romance, d'aventure et de grandeur.
On peut aimer ou détester ses histoires, on ne peut pas les oublier facilement.
Explore the links below to learn more about this fascinating author's fictional work.
These early short stories were not intended for publication, but were written while Ayn Rand was still learning her literary craft and gaining familiarity with the English language. They have considerable charm, however, and contain the seeds of ideas and values that would characterize her mature work.
These stories and others are anthologized in The Early Ayn Rand.
This short story, which shows how an artist’s values affect his creative processes, appears in Ayn Rand’s nonfiction work, The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature
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