Her first real success was The Fountainhead (rejected by more than ten publishers before publication in 1943).
Rand sold her first screenplay in 1932, but nobody bought We the Living (1936), her first novel and a melodrama, set in Russia. Because her original visa as a visitor expired, she also married a "beautiful" bit-part actor, called Frank O'Connor. She moved swiftly to Hollywood, where she learned English, worked in the RKO wardrobe department and as an extra, and wrote through the night on screenplays and novels. On arrival at Ellis Island, she changed into Ayn (after a name of some Finnish author, probably "Aino") Rand (a supposed abbreviation of her Russian surname). With money from the sale of jewelry of her mother, Alisa bought a ticket to New York. Alisa returned to the city, renamed Leningrad, to attend the university, but relatives already settled in America and in 1926 offered her the chance of joining them. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned the pharmacy that Fronz Rosenbaum, her father, owned, the family fled to the Crimea. Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.Īlisa Rosenbaum entered into a prosperous Jewish family before Russian revolution. Also a prolific non-fiction writer, as well as the founder of the philosophical school of Objectivism, she has had an unequivocal impact on both literature and culture, regardless of one's perspective of her works. Her status was later established with 'The Fountainhead' (1943) and her magnus opus, 'Atlas Shrugged' (1957).
After beginning her writing career with screenplays, she published the novel 'We the Living' in 1936. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned her family's business, they fled to the Crimea, and she later moved to America as soon as she was offered the chance. Petersburg to a prosperous Jewish family as Alisa Rosenbaum. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?Īgainst a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.Īyn Rand (1905–1982) was born in pre-revolutionary St. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings.
'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 tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.įirst 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.
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