The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century-available for the first time in trade paperback.
Ayn Rand wrote of her first novel, We the Living, “It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not…The specific events of Kira’s life were not mine: her ideas, her convictions, her values, were and are.” We the Living depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.
This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the banners and slogans.
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Summary
Overall Set during the Russian Revolution, we follow the life of Kira, a former bourgeois as she struggles against the repressive nature of communism. Two other central characters are Andrei, a party member who begins to question communism and Leo, a young man full of potential who has lost his drive since the rise of communism. It is
rumored that this is semiautobiographical, but Rand has said there were only a few similarities between Rand and Kira. A dark, depressing novel, it is worth reading to see
how and to see where Rand began developing what eventually became the philosophy of Objectivism. Review by Danno.