DeMille cast Rand as an extra artist on his film ‘The King of Kings’. She moved to Hollywood, California, and took up several odd jobs to make her daily bread and butter. In 1925, Ayn decided to travel to America to visit some relatives, however, upon falling in love with the country, she decided to stay in the states and pursue a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood. She then enrolled herself at the State Technicum for Screen Arts in Leningrad, where she studied for a year. However, after some protestations, they were allowed to complete their graduation, Rand received her degree in 1924. When she was nearing the completion of her graduation, Rand, along with other fellow bourgeois students, was suspended from the University. During her stay at the university, Rand educated herself in French, German and Russian, and soon, began devouring the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, Edmond Rostand, and Friedrich Schiller, who became her particular favorites. She began educating herself in the works of Plato and Aristotle, which laid the basis of his philosophical thoughts on state and politics. She died in 1982.Ayn was accepted at the Petrograd State University, where she studied at the department of social pedagogy, and pursued a degree in history. She was an ardent proponent of reason as the only means ofĪcquiring knowledge against faith and religion, rejected ethicalĪltruism and embraced ethical egoism and rational approach to life, andĬondemned use of force in politics. Philosophical system called Objectivism she developed. As for herĬontribution to the philosophical discipline goes, it consists in the Work includes The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Philosopher, playwright and screenwriter actually began. It was there that her identity as a novelist, The success of the novel can be gauged from theįact that as far back as in 1943, when marketing tactics were not asĪdvanced and developed as they are today, it sold over 6.5 millionĬopies worldwide and became the best-seller.Īlisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum aka Ayn Rand was a Russian Jewīorn on 2nd February 1905 in Saint Petersburg. However, the point of the novel is the triumph of individualismĪgainst collectivism. The same time, this particular aspect of the novel also renders it Relationship, it is the subtlety which marks it that fascinates us. Some stand in positive relationship with him whereas
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