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Chargement... Ayn Rand and the World She Made (original 2009; édition 2010)par Anne Conover Heller (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreAyn Rand and the World She Made par Anne Conover Heller (2009)
  
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) amoskovacs | Jul 20, 2017 |  I read The Fountainhead a number of years back, and liked the idea of sticking to one's dreams and visions even if it makes you an outsider. The rape scene was horrible to read, and Heller does articulate the passage as an example of Rand's infatuation with her strong male characters, and I was also struck in Fountainhead with the radio host who does not believe his own schtick of ugliness countered by the "everyman" architect who thinks that the host's word is gospel. Quite a precursor to modern alt-right radio. Good, well-researched biography, lots of good information, and worth borrowing a copy. (  ) threadnsong | Oct 2, 2016 |  )1  smlyniec | Jun 19, 2013 | ) Bellettres | May 16, 2011 | Still, Ayn Rand's ideas, especially early in her life, are the stuff of legend, and worth revisiting in the context that created her. ( )2 storyjunkie | Nov 11, 2010 |
 I confess that enthusiasm for [Ayn Rand] is to me utterly mysterious, and the excellent new biography by Ann C. Heller does not clear up the mystery but, rather, deepens it. Able and gifted people (not the least of them Alan Greenspan) were captivated both by her writings and her person, but the picture of Rand that emerges from Ms. Heller’s book is all the more damning because the biographer is obviously fair-minded and, indeed, something of an admirer of her subject.  In Heller's admirably evenhanded portrait, Rand appears as having been single-minded, ruthless, and beyond either modesty or embarrassment in her determination to succeed. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon? Two new biographies of Rand—Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller—try to puzzle out this question, showing how her arguments found an echo in the darkest corners of American political life. But the books work best, for me, on a level I didn't expect. They are thrilling psychological portraits of a horribly damaged woman who deserves the one thing she spent her life raging against: compassion. While it’s not hard to understand Rand’s revenge-fantasy appeal to those on the right, would-be Galts ought to hear the story Anne C. Heller has to tell in her dramatic and very timely biography, “Ayn Rand and the World She Made.” For one thing, it is far more interesting than anything in Rand’s novels. Ms. Heller has delivered a thoughtful, flesh-and-blood portrait of an extremely complicated and self-contradictory woman, coupling this character study with literary analysis and plumbing the quirkier depths of Rand’s prodigious imagination. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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