Fiction by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand.

O seu nome é uma espécie de teste psicológico de tornassol; provoca inevitavelmente reacções violentas de admiração feroz ou de denúncia indignada. Mas a neutralidade parece impossível.

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.

O objectivo da sua escrita, disse ela, não era capturar uma "fatia da vida", mas projectar a sua visão moral do homem "como ele poderia e deveria ser".

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.

E rejeitando a noção de que um romance "sério" tinha de ser aborrecido, dramatizou os seus temas filosóficos em intrincados enredos carregados de cor, romance, aventura e grandiosidade.

Pode-se amar ou odiar as suas histórias; não se pode facilmente esquecê-las.

Explore the links below to learn more about this fascinating author's fictional work.

AYN RAND'S NOVELS

• Atlas Shrugged (1957)
• The Fountainhead (1943)
• Anthem (1938)
• We the Living (1936)

AYN RAND'S SHORT STORIES

• The Husband I Bought (1926)
• Good Copy (c.a. 1927)
• Escort (1929)
• Her Second Career (1929)

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.

• The Simplest Thing in the World (1940)

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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