We the Living. 75th Anniversary Edition
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First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.
We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?
Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.
Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff
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Sehr zäh
Das Buch zieht sich einfach so in die Länge. Das Positive daran war der Blickwinkel auf Kommunismus, den man nicht wirklich kennt, wenn man in einer Demokratie aufgewachsen ist. In kleinster Detail wurde der Leser in die Szenerie gesetzt und fühlte mit den Charakteren mit. An manchen Stellen war es einfach zu lange hingezogen. Ein Reread wird mir schwer fallen.
She was green under the ears when she wrote it and it shows. In her debut novel, Ayn Rand is wrestling with her craft and seems confused with so much use of unspeakable word in it. She was searching for the right words and pace but is as helpless as she would have been in Russia. However she is able to portray the horrors of living in a Communist state. The writing sometimes seems vivid in description of the treacherous USSR weather and conditions; sometimes the reading of it seems no less(i got a painful throat while reading it).
Description
First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.
We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?
Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.
Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff
Book Information
Posts
Sehr zäh
Das Buch zieht sich einfach so in die Länge. Das Positive daran war der Blickwinkel auf Kommunismus, den man nicht wirklich kennt, wenn man in einer Demokratie aufgewachsen ist. In kleinster Detail wurde der Leser in die Szenerie gesetzt und fühlte mit den Charakteren mit. An manchen Stellen war es einfach zu lange hingezogen. Ein Reread wird mir schwer fallen.
She was green under the ears when she wrote it and it shows. In her debut novel, Ayn Rand is wrestling with her craft and seems confused with so much use of unspeakable word in it. She was searching for the right words and pace but is as helpless as she would have been in Russia. However she is able to portray the horrors of living in a Communist state. The writing sometimes seems vivid in description of the treacherous USSR weather and conditions; sometimes the reading of it seems no less(i got a painful throat while reading it).