Sunday, March 8, 2009

Ayn Rand's

More than 2 years! I have heard people talking about this book / blogging about this book / discussing about this book so fervently. There was never a single person who decried this book .Everyone gave a perfect 10 out of 10 .All these piled up my curiosity to get my hands on this book !
Ok no more suspense; it’s the Superlative Novel “The fountainhead” by Ayn Ryand.
I lived on this novel, for the past two days, completely immersed, imbued, inebriated on its 670 pages!
Ayn Ryand – The Writer – I would strongly recommend to those ,who want a carrier in Film Direction/Photography , to step into the art of film making by start reading this novel. She brilliantly portrays the scenes, characters and every minute detail with such a precision you would never imagine! If you just grasp the scenes she describes and blindly try to photograph what she had said, surely you would beat PC Sreeram of Kollywood ,hands down ! (Sorry I can’t recollect Hollywood biggies’ name now) .To write a novel of such intensity and content, she should have thought about the concept alone for more than 2 years (!), if my guess is right.
The characters of the novel : Howard Roark,Peter Keating,Dominique Francon,Ellsie Toohey ,Gail Wynand are so real for me after 2 days of head-to-toe indulgence ! I could see /feel, how MANLY Howard Raork is (Just to say this name alone, I feel a sense of pride /insolent-ness of the character),how GORGEOUS Dominique Francon is ,how INCOMPETENT Peter Keating is , how CLEVER Ellsie Toohey is,how CUT-THROAT person Gail Wynand is ! 
There are lot of things I admire about each and every character of what Ayn Rand has portrayed. Their peculiarity,curtness,rudeness,the types of words they exchanged,intellectual speeches .
I noticed some words she used exhaustively throughout the book : gay,reproach,impertinence,insolence,bromide,presumptuous.
I guess she prefer lean people to fat ones. All of her characters are lean! 
The comfortable way of relaxing oneself,according to her, is lying on the floor using support of elbows.
A man can have his own identity through what he does: His profession.
But one thing is clear, no one can live the characters she visualized, let alone fictional ,thanks to the queerness associated with every character but one can listen to the author’s word through her characters’ mouths .That’s worth a million dollar.May be much more than that !!
Individualism & Collectivism is the core-concept of the book. Individualism is nothing but Individual, who thinks of his own and creates things of his own- a Creator.Collectivisim is nothing but group of people .who don’t give a thought about themselves but about others as a group, to run after the word PRESTIGE for the want of appreciation,recognization,money,pride etc. 
I’m tempted to write briefly about the contents but I’m afraid it would take me 3 full days to do that  :( 

I’m planning to read it as many times as possible, to understand the new meaning or any overlooked inner-meaning on my first perusal. For those of you who haven’t read this book, Save your Soul ,read this novel, before you feel that you missed something invaluable in your life (i.e.) This book !

10 comments:

Arunkumar said...

nice blog... u really lived on this book... after reading this i too curious about the content of the book... i feel it might be your first blog...:P so no negative comments... keep it up...:)

arun said...

hey Vj ...r u a video jockey hope not ... by just looking at your blog i can fathom how much u lived with every character of the book and i can also feel how much those characters had left an eternal impression in ur mind ... Really your blog is pumping the adrenaline in me to get my hands on this book and get lost while searching for the fountain .... Keep blogging

Raja Vikram said...

Is it so good??hmmm..let me see da..
and just a minor correction dude..
Its 'career' not 'carrier' rotfl

Sriganesh Murthi said...

nice post da... finished it in two days?? such heavy reading... amazing da... Read "Atlas Shrugged" next, perhaps after a week or so of basking in the characters in the Fountainhead... I was also tempted to blog after reading "Atlas Shrugged"... but it would have been too personal a post... romba kadhariruppen, adhanaale vututen... :-D

anyway your post inspires me to take up "The Fountainhead" again... keep blogging...

meaningopposite said...

@Arun Singer

Thanks da. u are so lazy to scroll the web page it seems :) written this as my first blog

meaningopposite said...

@ arun ,if i goaded u to read this book through my blog, i'm very much delighted at it da .

@ Raja Vikram ,Yes da .read urself and feel urself what i have failed to describe ! And thanks for the pointing out the typo.By the way that is not "its" but "it's" :) ithu epadi ???

@ Sriganesh,Yes da 2 days ,its like taring ur head ,pulling ur tongue,though i was trying to read it continuously i couldnt, after some point of time.Not able to speak at all :) But still i finished it. I dont think i can take up that 1100 pages Atlas Shrugged until i read/ go-through this "The fountainhead" again ,again and again :) over'a solluraen'la ... padika padika neraya visayum theriyudhu da. Hail Ayn Rand !

Anonymous said...

gud work machi...gud work then putting some vetti pongal..

Anonymous said...

aama etha book thirumba thirumba pachi enna panna porae?? padam eduka poreya??

Anonymous said...

machi oru doubt .. wat ru doing bet Apr 2008 and Mar 2009

Vijay said...

@anonymous - apr08 to mar 09 ?? puriyala machi. atleast un perayachum yarunu slli irukalam.