Atlas Shrugged | Critical Overview

The publication of Atlas Shrugged was eagerly awaited by Rand's fans, who adopted Objectivism with her previous work The Fountainhead, but it seems that her critics expected her next novel with equal anticipation. Atlas Shrugged produced more written commentary than any of Rand's other publications; like the rest of Rand's work promoting Objectivism, the novel inspired rather heated responses. When Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957, it was immediately established as a highly controversial literary work: while some critics labeled it downright fascist,...

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