![]() ![]() Like the books she would subsequently write, it was a critique of social conformity and a paean to individualism. Her play, Night of January 16th, had opened on Broadway the previous year. When We the Living was published, Rand was already becoming known in certain quarters. As the New York Times put it, the book seemed “slavishly warped to the dictates of propaganda.” Ayn Rand as an emerging author Many reviews of We the Living appreciated the direct look at the effects of Soviet policies on society, but felt the writing was heavy-handed. ![]() This set the stage for the popularity of her subsequent novels, especially The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which sold like gangbusters - even though critics were even less kind to them. Though the reviews the book received upon its initial publication were mixed, it became a bestseller. It was, in her own estimation, her most semi-autobiographical. Set in post-revolutionary Russia, it reflected Rand’s opposition to communism and totalitarianism. We the Living (1936) was the first published novel by Ayn Rand, the ever-controversial Russian-American novelist. ![]()
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