Ayn Rand
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Re: Ayn Rand
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I suspect that when you say "flawed" you're referring to the one dimensional characters but that's why the novel works so well. Each character in both novels is exactly what he/she had to be to make the story work, and the stories worked beautifully. Nothing like that had ever been done before in literature and I'm not sure it's been done since, at least not on purpose.
These are immensely complex and intricate stories, carefully engineered by a master. In my mind they're great literature. And that has nothing to do with her ideology.
I first read "The Fountainhead" when I was in my late teens, probably about 1958 or so, and I was greatly influenced by her philosophy as well as by the beauty of the story. That's not to say I agreed with her ideas. Some I did. Most I didn't. But who cares! The point was the story. I'm glad she had that strong ideology and tried to sell it or we might not have had this good reading. "The Fountainhead" is one of the 15 or 20 books I re-read every few years.
By the way, the magazine "Psychology Today" did a survey of business leaders, world leaders and leaders in a variety of fields and one of the questions they asked was what author most influenced their thinking. This was sometime in the mid 1960s or 1970s. Over half of them named Ayn Rand as the author who influenced them most. So while we may not agree with her ideology we've certainly been affected by it. Trump also says she's his favorite author.
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Thanks for proving my case, Barry.BarryEM wrote:Trump also says she's his favorite author.
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