The Fountain

. Ayn Rand, the Russian author of the work created a new genre of its own when she came out with work like, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

The Fountainhead, undoubtedly, can be regarded as one of the greatest pieces of fiction in modern times, not only for the ingenuity of the frame work but also for the sheer brilliance to the craft, for the power of the book exercises upon the reader and finally for its hard hitting yet subtle charm which is testimony to it being a cut above. Hats off to the author for the concept of objectivism, a philosophy, which nurtures enlightened self interest and makes the self sufficiency of one’s soul the fountainhead of one’s awakened existence. The Fountainhead is the story of a relentless battle between the young and exceedingly talented architect Howard Roark and the rest of the world. He stands against a word full of second handers; people devoid of self esteem, people whose own approval rests within the eyes of others, people for whom their achievements are just a means to garner appreciation from others-i.e. people who place their prime concern among other man. Roark’s only weapons are his self sufficient ago and his uncompromising and unrivalled competence. Ayn Rand has seamlessly moved from the outer world of vulnerabilities, deception and hypocricy to the inner world of a man full of confidence, will and hatred for the world and its fallacies. The book is not to be devoured in large gulps but to be savoured in small sips, slowly and delicately. It will be pain disregard of the genius of the author if one enjoys such a masterpiece in the way one reads the common stuff. Ayn Rand’s work Fountainhead is sublimely beautiful, absorbing and inherently different.