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ANTHEMAYN RAN DAyn Rand (February 2, 1905 March 6, 1982)Born in Russia, Ayn Rand is most known for her arch-American, best-selling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) as well as for originating the philo-sophical system of Objectivism. Set in a totalitarian future, Anthem (1938) is a poetically essentialized story portraying the unpardonable crime of the hero: his quest to think and live for himself. Anthem is a secular hymn to the crucial role that reason, volition values and individuality in short, M a n s Ego play in human life. How exactly does Anthem differ in form from her other fiction? In contrast to her three novels literary approach of Romantic realism, she described Anthem as a dramatic fantasy and, even more intriguingly, she once classified it as a poem. But while the whole novella s text clearly is in prose and not in meter (the defining characteristic of poetry) ,I can easily agree that Anthem should be read as a poem: it should be slowly savored, even read aloud, for its highly stylized, semi-Biblical language and its ethereal, non-literal storytelling.

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