a real good story…

Book review:

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943

754 pages

You already know something about what The Fountainhead is all about, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this review.

Here’s my contribution: think of The Fountainhead as a novel, as a love story, as a heroic fable, as a celebration of human virtue and the urge to do the right thing. Think about that moralistic gem from Hamlet: “To thine own self be true.”

The Fountainhead is an elaboration of Ayn Rand’s imagination about ambition, self-actualization, courage, endurance, and a kind of love that needs more marshmallows and less of the kind of talk that you wouldn’t expect to hear in the library stacks.

It’s a real good story. Roark, Dominique, and a couple other characters aren’t sketched, they’re lushly painted with many words that you don’t hear in ordinary conversation.

Forget about the political claptrap that’s bandied about using a rubric of “Ayn Rand’s philosophy.”

She was a novelist first, and her talent ran dry when she stepped out of the literary sphere.

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