One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion.
The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand, the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke.
Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.
© 1995 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781483077048
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 mars 1995
One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion.
The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand, the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke.
Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.
© 1995 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781483077048
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 mars 1995
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Dick
20 mars 2020
En utmaning mot allt som är kollektiv konsensus i väst. Lika aktuell nu som då
Anton
8 feb. 2022
This book creates its own little universe where it then pretends to prove things about human nature and politics by having the story and caracters act accordingly. It would have been an mediocre book, but the fact that it poses as bringing intellectual insights is just sad, in that way, it's more a form of propaganda than a book. (And thats what it feels like once you see through its format). I guess some teenagers could be convinced that being selfish is the highest form of life. In that i would even call this book dangerous. But it shouldnt fool anyone with any knowlage of how the neo-liberal experiment that came from this and ideas like it ended in a total global catastrophe, in which we are still struggling.I can see where she is comming from with her hate of Stalinism, and trying to create an oposite ideology. Unfortunately it's pure bullshit!As a side note, being an architect myself, it works more or less the opposite way she descibes it. It's practicaly always a team effort.
John
24 dec. 2022
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Maria
4 okt. 2020
A book that should not be read without understanding its context. The author, the time and place in which it was written, not to mention the philosophical and cultural movements at that time. It is of course very interesting today as well, as a point of argument. But it’s no longer the whole story, as we today have a different insight of what individualism might mean.
Fredrik-Sebastian
8 okt. 2022
A timeless classic by Ayn Rand. A testament to her excellence as a romantic writer and philosopher. The journey of a hero and those who admired him in contrast to the “second-handed thinkers” who feared his greatness at living.
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