Fiction by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand.

Su nombre es una especie de prueba de fuego psicológica; provoca inevitablemente reacciones violentas de admiración feroz o de denuncia indignada. Pero la neutralidad parece imposible.

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.

El objetivo de sus escritos, decía, no era captar un "trozo de vida", sino proyectar su visión moral del hombre "tal como podría y debería ser".

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.

Y rechazando la idea de que una novela "seria" tuviera que ser aburrida, dramatizó sus temas filosóficos en intrincadas tramas cargadas de color, romance, aventura y grandeza.

Uno puede amar u odiar sus historias, pero no puede olvidarlas fácilmente.

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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