Independentemente do que se possa achar do estilo literário de Ayn Rand e da sua doutrina filosófica, Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged at Fifty. Por Barbara Branden.
We had endured her extreme irritability during the two years of writing Galt’s speech, which had been unrelieved agony for her — the agony arising from her effort to present abstract philosophical issues not in technical terms but in a manner suitable to a novel. We had worried about her as she grew increasingly tired and harassed, working often through the night, her shoulders and back aching from tension. We had happily witnessed the change in her mood when the speech was at last finished, and she was writing the final scenes of the novel, the predominantly action sequences that gave her so much pleasure.
Now they were over, the years of watching the growth of the work that had changed our lives — and was to change them still more — the years of feeling that we, along with Ayn, were living in the universe of Atlas, were over.
As the publication date drew near, Nathaniel and I and the “Collective” — the small group of friends who had gathered around Ayn during the past few years and had also read the book in manuscript — felt that this miracle of a novel would surely hit the public like a thunderclap. As Ayn had said, the wildly successful The Fountainhead had been only a prelude to Atlas Shrugged.
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Atlas Shrugged was published on October 10, 1957. I wrote in The Passion of Ayn Rand, “And then it was over — over forever in Ayn’s life — that happy period of excitement, and hope, and expectation. And with it seemed to go almost the last of her fragile capacity to live in reality.”
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Já agora, tb existe em e-book – por coincidência estou a ler (suporte Mobipocket)
Comentário por mindetective — Dezembro 23, 2009 @ 21:27
Penso que o “1984″ lhe ganha, pelo menos se medirmos “importância” em termos de impacte que teve (infelizmente, ninguém ligou nada a “A Ilha”…)
Comentário por Miguel Madeira — Dezembro 23, 2009 @ 22:58
O 1984 é um bom livro, mas não tem nem metade do impacto de Atlas. O 84 mostra-te o lado prático do que acontece quando eles lá chegam, Atlas mostra-te porque é que eles lá chegaram o que acho de muito maior importância.
Digo eu que gostei de ambos quando os li.
Comentário por Nuno Branco — Dezembro 23, 2009 @ 23:36
A propósito do 1984, há um texto do Rothbard a discutir o 1984, com menção ao Huxley (Brave New World) e ao Anthem da Ayn Rand. (Nessa altura ainda não tinha sido publicado o Atlas Shrugged).
Huxley’s future was spiritually dead, but at least the masses were happy; Ayn Rand’s dictators were timid, stupid men who permitted a renascent individualist to escape from the strangling collectivist world and begin life anew.
George Orwell’s collectivist Utopia has plugged all the loopholes. There is no hope at all for the individual or for humanity, and so the effect on the reader is devastating.
Comentário por João Paulo Magalhães — Dezembro 24, 2009 @ 01:34
O admirável mundo novo não cabe bem na mesma categoria, não só porque as massas estavam felizes mas pricipalmente porque o individuo tem um sistema de opt out.
Comentário por Nuno Branco — Dezembro 24, 2009 @ 09:35
acho mal, muito mal, que se designem a si próprios como “O Colectivo”
Comentário por AntónioCostaAmaral (AA) — Dezembro 24, 2009 @ 11:44
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Outro artigo interessante sobre a Ayn Rand: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1708/article_detail.asp
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