Fiction by Ayn Rand

アイン・ランド（Ayn Rand）。

彼女の名前は、心理的なリトマス試験紙のようなもので、激しい賞賛や憤慨した非難といった激しい反応を引き起こすのは必然です。しかし、中立は不可能なようです。

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.

彼女の執筆の目的は、「人生の一コマ」を切り取ることではなく、「あるべき姿」の人間に対する道徳的なビジョンを投影することだと彼女は言った。

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.

そして、「シリアス」な小説は退屈なものでなければならないという概念を否定し、色彩、ロマンス、冒険、壮大さに満ちた複雑なプロットで、哲学的なテーマをドラマチックに表現しました。

彼女の物語は、好きでも嫌いでも、簡単に忘れることはできない。

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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