Fiction by Ayn Rand

Айн Рэнд.

Ее имя - своего рода психологическая лакмусовая бумажка; оно неизбежно вызывает бурную реакцию либо яростного восхищения, либо возмущенного осуждения. Но нейтралитет кажется невозможным.

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.

По ее словам, цель ее писательства - не запечатлеть "кусочек жизни", а проецировать свое нравственное видение человека, "каким он может и должен быть".

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.

Отвергая мнение о том, что "серьезный" роман должен быть скучным, она драматизировала свои философские темы в замысловатых сюжетах, наполненных цветом, романтикой, приключениями и величием.

Можно любить или ненавидеть ее истории, но забыть их нелегко.

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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