I recently heard Ayn Rand placed next to Hemmingway as one of the two greatest novelists of the 20th century. I've never read anything by her, but I find this claim ... somewhat difficult to believe.
Has anyone read Ayn Rand? Can anyone either confirm or discredit this claim?
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12 comments:
Sorry, I haven't got a clue.
and Ernest Hemingway is boring.
Rand's literary style, as well as philosophy, divides people. I absolutely love her novels, but if you are going to ask for a noncontroversial she is/she isn't, you're not going to get it.
I've generally only heard negative things, myself.
Ernest Hemingway IS boring!
I think you're lazy for not using google.
John C. Wright recently had some words to say about Ayn Rand:
http://johncwright.livejournal.com/42110.html?thread=199550#t199550
Whoa, it's you're lucky day. He just posted about the one and only G.K. Chesterton vs. Ayn Rand!
http://johncwright.livejournal.com/43040.html
Sigh... that should be 'your.'
Ernest Hemingway has his good points. I liked A Farwell to Arms. Old Man and the Sea was boring though. Very dull. Catch the stupid fish already. But I haven't read Ayn Rand.
Ernest Hemmingway IS boring, hardly the greatest writer ever...Ayn Rand is a scary facist, The Fountainhead is her fantasy about meritocracy.
Someone recently said that Rand was great when you are 19, but if you still admire her work when you are 37 you are in trouble.
Having read some of her work, I have to agree. I knew budding young conservatives in high school who loved her. But the two books I read (Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead) were simply awful. I do not see the attraction.
Hemingway, on the other hand, basically changed the way fiction is written in English. That's a real impact, like it or not. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is my personal favorite. "The Sun Also Rises" spoke for an entire generation of ex-pats, but may be dated now.
But, there's no arguing with taste!
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