Book - The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead written by Ayn Rand. A 700 page novel!

I started reading this in 2013! Now, it is 2018! 5 years!

My architect brother lent me a copy of this novel in 2013. I read about 10 pages and did not understand anything. He took the copy away from me seeing me uninterested. After 5 years, I get a copy of this novel and finish reading it in 20 days! How crazy!

I understand now, why I did not understand 5 years back, I was just a 13 year old boy. Reading it now, has changed my thinking about looking at things in the world.

According to me, this is a philosophical novel. It focuses on objectivism. This is the clash between individualism and collectivism. Tere must be a disclaimer for this - NOT FOR THE WEAK MINDS!

Synopsis:

This novel is divided into four parts, namely - Peter Keating, Ellsworth M Toohey, Gail Wynand and Howard Roark.

The protagonist of this novel is Howard Roark, an individualistic architect. This is about his struggle and rise of him to become great architect.

More than this, I cannot give any more details of the story. Because each and every part of the storyline is mixed with philosophy. Anything more, I say will need pages of explanation.

To all the brilliant people, this book is a challenge for you to understand this.

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Malegalalli Madumagalu

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