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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
The Fountainhead serves as an excellent introduction to both Ayn Rand's writing and her philosophy of Objectivism. All of the major intellectual themes that inform Rand's fiction and her subsequent philosophy are presented clearly in this novel.
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The Fountainhead, chiefly through its characters, points up a number of paradoxes in our time and culture. There is first the paradox of the drive for competition and success on the one hand vs. the constant demand for brotherly love and humility on the other.
The Fountainhead is a novel by Russian-born American author and philosopher Ayn Rand that was first published in 1943. Her her first great success, it centers on an architect who represents Rand’s ideas about how the individual struggles against society.
Jun 30, 2010 · The Fountainhead is a monument of American culture; monumental in size, monumental in scope, monumental in effect, monumental in the statement that it makes about America, but monumental also in the complexity and integration of its statement.
The Fountainhead opens with graduation day in 1922 at the School of Architecture at the Stanton Institute of Technology. The anxious-to-please Peter Keating is honored as valedictorian, while...
The Fountainhead is about a brilliant architect who battles against lesser individuals trying to control and water down his vision—to the point where the architect dynamites his partially-constructed building rather than seeing it completed with his opponents’ compromises incorporated into it.
