The Fountainhead
“The Fountainhead” is one of the first fiction books by Ayn Rand, the russian-american writer and a fancy of the beliefs of an objectivist movement she later began. The novel is a troubling existentialist, postmodernist examination of self and the individual identity through the actions and persona of a relentless main protagonist, Howard Roark, a young arrogant archi4itect who stood unyielding for an architectural world that is not ready for change and progress.
About the Author
Born in Saint Petersburg, watched the Bolsheviks confiscate her father’s pharmacy, left for the United States at twenty-one and never stopped writing against collectivism. The Fountainhead gives an architect who will destroy his own building rather than see it compromised. Atlas Shrugged imagines the competent…
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