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The fountainhead original book5/30/2023 Rand once gave faint praise to Dostoyevsky (and compared her own writings favorably with his): "He presents evil very perceptively, but is saying, in effect, 'This is what man should not be.' " But although she preferred defining herself in a positive aspect, Rand stands in sharpest relief when considering her many targets of intellectual criticism. Berliner, the authoritative companion to her work. 689-695 of 'The Fountainhead' ") make "Letters of Ayn Rand," edited by Michael S. And for devotees, the frequent citations (for example, "The ends of socialism are all listed in Ellsworth Toohey's speech on pp. Want to know the true significance of the rape of Dominique Francon? It's in Rand's 1965 response to a fan. Fortunately, her own private letters now provide the most concisely written expansion upon them so far - and, in the bargain, surprisingly ample self-revelation, letting us know their author far more intimately than she ever permitted in life.įor those who have found the thousands of pages of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" ponderous, the bite-size analyses here of her characters, plots and intended meanings offer far quicker entree to their essence. She was constitutionally opposed to others' paraphrases of her ideas. $34.95.Īyn Rand would have been the first to condemn an entrepreneur who sought to market a short cut to understanding objectivist philosophy.
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