We the Living
by Ayn Rand
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Author: Ayn RandIntroduction: Leonard Peikoff
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-01-01
ISBN: 0451187849
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Her one good book
Summary: 3 Stars
Ayn Rand wrote one good book, her first one, a novel titled We the Living. When it was published in the 1930's it was reviewed favorably as a novel of ideas. And rightly so. Her better known novels, Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, might usefully be described as novels of length, or not novels at all. Long-winded, outrageously polemical diatribes might be a better characterization. Fountainhead is the only novel I've read which romanticizes rape. (I guess it depends on who is doing the raping.) Atlas Shrugged contains an 80-plus page disquisition on the meaning and value of money. When does a novel stop being a novel and become a torturously non-sensical treatise on political economy? (Alan Greenspan's close association with Ayn Rand may account for his mumbling incoherence and the disastrous failure of his policies.)
Maybe Ayn Rand sold out. Rather than develop her real gifts as a novelist, she sought a much larger following with ham-handed appeals to the young, the inexperienced, and the romantically reactionary. There's no subtlety or style in the work that followed We the Living, but Ayn Rand did gain a large following of proponents of her objectivist philosophy. Literary appeal for big-bucks bellicosity. Hardly seems a fair trade.
Summary of We the Living
An exploration of the eternal human struggle between the human individual and the state offers the first installment of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and features an introduction by the author's heir, Leonard Peikoff. Reissue.General Books
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