Anthem
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Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by The Council of Vocations to work as a road sweeper, he stumbles upon a link to the old world that gives him the spur to break free. First published in England in 1938, Ayn Rand's short dystopian novel crystallizes the ideas of individualism and competition that would make her name.
Ayn Rand (1905-82), born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, emigrated to America with her family in January 1926, never to return to her native land. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual.
If you enjoyed Anthem, you might also like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, available in Penguin Classics.
'She created a new credo for all individualists'
The Times Literary Supplement
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Ein Meisterwerk in meinen Augen!
Ein Buch, das ich wieder lesen werde, weil es so viel Wichtiges enthält. Es ist das erste Buch, das ich von Ayn Rand gelesen habe und macht mich hungrig nach mehr. Fesselnd und tiefgründig. Ich sah Parallelen zu Prometheus und die Entstehung der Zehn-Gebote. War lustig gleich am Ende des Satzes sogar "Prometheus" zu lesen. 😀
Идеалистический взгляд на жизнь. Все просто капиталисты - умные, хорошие люди. Социалисты - глупые, бездарные и жестокие люди. Разрушили страну, погубили столько жизней только по тому, что не хотели ни прогибается ни работать - так что нифига не «расправил», а просто бросил ношу на ничего не подозревавших людей.
Interesting novella for me, since it was the first dystrophian novel that I have read in which the world actually regressed technologically instead of being more advanced. In general I liked the main character, but I am appalled that finding himself also meant that in the end he reinvented the patriarchal society. I thought that to be very disappointing, especially coming from a female author... I do know that this was written over 80 years ago, but still!
Description
Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by The Council of Vocations to work as a road sweeper, he stumbles upon a link to the old world that gives him the spur to break free. First published in England in 1938, Ayn Rand's short dystopian novel crystallizes the ideas of individualism and competition that would make her name.
Ayn Rand (1905-82), born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, emigrated to America with her family in January 1926, never to return to her native land. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual.
If you enjoyed Anthem, you might also like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, available in Penguin Classics.
'She created a new credo for all individualists'
The Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
Posts
Ein Meisterwerk in meinen Augen!
Ein Buch, das ich wieder lesen werde, weil es so viel Wichtiges enthält. Es ist das erste Buch, das ich von Ayn Rand gelesen habe und macht mich hungrig nach mehr. Fesselnd und tiefgründig. Ich sah Parallelen zu Prometheus und die Entstehung der Zehn-Gebote. War lustig gleich am Ende des Satzes sogar "Prometheus" zu lesen. 😀
Идеалистический взгляд на жизнь. Все просто капиталисты - умные, хорошие люди. Социалисты - глупые, бездарные и жестокие люди. Разрушили страну, погубили столько жизней только по тому, что не хотели ни прогибается ни работать - так что нифига не «расправил», а просто бросил ношу на ничего не подозревавших людей.
Interesting novella for me, since it was the first dystrophian novel that I have read in which the world actually regressed technologically instead of being more advanced. In general I liked the main character, but I am appalled that finding himself also meant that in the end he reinvented the patriarchal society. I thought that to be very disappointing, especially coming from a female author... I do know that this was written over 80 years ago, but still!