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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9781586635152
Edition: Stg
ISBN: 1586635158
Label: SparkNotes
Manufacturer: SparkNotes
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 72
Publication Date: July 15, 2002
Publisher: SparkNotes
Studio: SparkNotes
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.
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Ayn Rand's talent as a writer is manifest primarily in her characterizations, and her ability to write dialogue. She is also a master of analogy, though it is an over employed technique.
Although my familiarity with her philosophy is limited to The Fountainhead, it certainly is capsulized in Howard Roark's summation to the jury at the close of the book. Rand's celebration of the self (egotism in her words) at the expense of the collective (second-handers in her terminology) seems shallow and unworkable. She idealizes the creator of the wheel, because such advances to civilization exemplify the results of an individual working for his own self interest, whereas the user of a cart is merely a member of the collective second-handers following the resultant availability of carts (essentially). Man's self interest is the highest good to Ms. Rand; higher than spirituality, higher than love (witness the 'heroic' surrender of Roark's love, Dominique, to two other marital partners ... Read More
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A collegue gave me this book a couple of years ago. The book was catching the karakters as discribes by Ayn Rand are an inspiration. Ever since reading the book for the firts time I give this book to people around me and everybody loves it.
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Ok, to start off lets forget all about the B.S Philosophy of Ayn Rand and focus purely on the writing content of the story itself.
I give it one star, simply for the character development which seems to follow her philosophy fairly well. She seems to have developed the Protagonist and the antagonist very well, though it seems she did this by accident if only to fill her philosophical ideals. It's apparent because the supporting characters seem shallow and their interactions in no way resemble true human relationships.
Rand seems like she tries to make up for this with excruciating and painfully dull, redundant, and useless detail such as the one sentence that almost made me burn the damn thing. "They went on, to move, to feel the movement, to know the feeling of their own muscles moving"
If rand wanted to create a nice piece of literature and not just a semi creative philosophy book, she could have cut out the redundant details and focused more on tying in ... Read More
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This is a nice introduction to Rand's views I think for those who don't have the will to finish the significantly larger work of hers... Atlas Shrugged. It seems long enough that people should be able to fairly easily gain an understanding of what she's about, although I really think that if possible people should probably go for Atlas Shrugged first.
Both are certainly classics and should be read by anyone seeking a greater understanding of life, philosophy, and politics. I highly recommend it.
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I bought a used book in good condition. This book arrived very fast and of course was in a better condition than my expectation. I am happy with my current purchase and would like to continue in future.
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