Symbols as a Reflection of A. Rand’s Philosophical Views in the Novel “Atlas Shrugged”
Mirasova Kamila Naeelovna
Kazan Federal University
Submitted: 06.09.2022
Abstract. Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum), a famous American writer of the XX century, who emigrated to the United States from post-revolutionary Russia at the age of 21, captured the readers’ attention in her historical homeland with great delay, only at the turn of the XXI century. In the short time since then, she has gained wide and, as well as in the rest of the world, ambiguous fame in Russia; she has become an object of criticism, but more from the perspective of her economic views than the literary merits of her works. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the literary features of “Atlas Shrugged”, the main novel in A. Rand’s creative work, in the light of the author’s philosophical ideas. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that Rand’s style has not yet been seriously analysed, despite the fact that Rand herself attached great importance to this aspect of literary creativity. The research findings have shown that the literary form of “Atlas Shrugged” has no less philosophical meaningfulness than its philosophical content.
Key words and phrases: Айн Рэнд, объективизм, стиль, символ, романтизм, Ayn Rand, objectivism, style, symbol, romanticism
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