I am mentioning another timeless and consuming writer I happened to read .Sometimes having read one of the works you are tempted to read another of the author’s work, and after having finished Rand’s “We The Living”, (which described the Russian Communist life in a dark light) the same happened with me, and I could not finish “The Fountainhead” and I still want to lay my hands on “Atlas Shrugged”.But , so has been the case with Eric Segal’s “Doctors” a vengefully morose dissertation.Half read books are like ,well I have no words for that, but some writers want to say it all, and it can be very dramatically meditative state of reception, that is impossible to sustain over long periods, given that I am a slow reader. Infact I have never read a book only for reading, my motive was to write something myself, and imbibe even as it was a worthwhile experience. I have had friends who were more passionate than me about reading stories , and they read for the fun of it, and any knowledge was only consequential. Not necessarily do you get the knack of writing if you are a voracious reader.Not always.
We The Living is concluded over the death of a woman, a trail of blood on cold Russian snow.As far as I remember Leo is the erring husband, who commits adultery, or is at the verge of commiting it? Correct me if it is wrong.
Though Ayn Rand,the Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter passed from this world in 1982, her most popular books remain mainstays in bookstores across America. No bookstore of any size or seriousness would be without The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Her books, almost 30 years after her death, are expected to sell 2 million copies this year, up from an average of about 300,000 per year.
I was amazed to find out that Ayn Rand was indeed a woman! I was more than baffled.The tone is so much like a man’s viewpoint.So strong, unamusing and moving.Her heroes are so stoical and innately inhuman, and she builds her story meticulously along the plot, as her thoughts flow like a river , the twirls of her sordid forsaken totality plaguing the last bit of optimism, and surpassing it with her characterization.Her protagonist are her God, only, so ethereal in their worldly pursuits,that there is an admonishing soul to it; and it surprises you how she fits in her other characters.They are equally amazing ,standing in great contrast.Its a neat narration.People are real and distinguished. Her books tell of life’s pattern evolving , there are no untidy fringes of dialogues.Its a quiet observation moreover a dungeoned perspective trying to draw an escape.
The controversy whether she is an asset or liability for free market advocates today, with her advocacy of liberatinism makes her the true artist, whose mindset stampedes the usual morality and code of conduct.But hasn’t that spice, the overstepping ,been coincidently responsible for the essence of art, since it catapults Life, and rises above monotony, in the so called transgression .Americans love her even today, and she will live eternally for her achievements.
To Ilya Somin’s interpretation her only serious competitors would be an aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, who designed the first mass-produced helicopter, among other achievements, and novelist Vladimir Nabokov.
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