Fountainhead

The Fountainhead is a blockbuster with philosophical intent, a huge, plot-filled narrative focusing on the lives of two young architects in the inter-war period in America.

The Fountainhead « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The Fountainhead is set in much the same time and place as, say, West Side Story, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Dorothy Parker, the Futurians, the early years of the New Yorker, at a slight remove The Great Gatsby.

Froth hells_librarian 2009

Thanks for sharing this, litlove; it was good to hear thoughts about The Fountainhead from a blogger, especially someone as well read as you.

The Fountainhead « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

And The Fountainhead is a marathon read that would be quite easy to put down, I think.

Current Reads and New Books « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

If the Fountainhead is a particularly difficult book to read, it’s because the romance between Dominique and Howard is probably its fundamental driving force, and equally, the most twisted, unsympathetic element of its composition.

The Fountainhead « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I can almost hear you saying that. oh – The Fountainhead is very, very interesting, but I’m not at all surprised if it defeats people, not least because it’s huge and quite intense.

Current Reads and New Books « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

| Reply lucidlunatic, I can’t be super helpful, not having read Anthem, but I would say that The Fountainhead is not quite on Atlas Shrugged level for length of monologue and description.

The Fountainhead « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

For all the force and topicality of her Atlas Shrugged - Fraser's recommendation of which I heartily agree with, although I think The Fountainhead is a more effective dose of Rand's objectivism - the artistic and literary worlds seem to have much more room for works that, on some level, can be used as counterweight to Rand's philosophy.

Why is Ayn Rand so isolated? 2009

Though Rand would have denied it, The Fountainhead is a much more Nietzschean work than Atlas.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Non-Contradiction of Rand’s Capitalism 2009

The Fountainhead is her favorite book because it taught her that "you're not a bad person if you don't love everyone."

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