Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living

by Mayhew, Robert; Berliner, Michael S.; Bernstein, Andrew; Britting, Jeff; Garmong, Dina; Ghate, Onkar; Lewis, John; McConnell, Scott; Milgram, Shoshana; Ralston, Richard E.; Ridpath, John; Smith, Tara; Trammell, Jena

• ISBN13: 9780739106983
• ISBN10: 0739106988
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-23
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Ayn Rand's first novel, We the Living, offers an early form of the author's nascent philosophy--the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism. Robert Mayhew's collection of entirely new essays brings together pre-eminent scholars of Rand's writing. In part a history of We the Living, from its earliest drafts to the Italian film later based upon it, Mayhew's collection goes on to explore the enduring significance of Rand's first novel as a work both of philosophy and of literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Bibliographical Note	p. xiii
The History of We the Living
From Airtight to We the Living: The Drafts of Ayn Rand's First Novel	p. 3
Parallel Lives: Models and Inspirations for Characters in We the Living	p. 47
We the Living and the Rosenbaum Family Letters	p. 67
Russian Revolutionary Ideology and We the Living	p. 87
The Music of We the Living	p. 117
Publishing We the Living	p. 133
Reviews of We the Living	p. 145
Adapting We the Living	p. 155
We the Living: '36 and '59	p. 185
We the Living as Literature and as Philosophy
We the Living and Victor Hugo: Ayn Rand's First Novel and the Novelist She Ranked First	p. 223
Red Pawn: Ayn Rand's Other Story of Soviet Russia	p. 257
The Integration of Plot and Theme in We the Living	p. 279
Kira's Family	p. 285
Kira Argounova Laughed: Humor and Joy in We the Living	p. 303
Forbidding Life to Those Still Living	p. 317
The Death Premise in We the Living and Atlas Shrugged	p. 335
Select Bibliography	p. 357
Index	p. 359
About the Contributors	p. 367
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