The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success.
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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success.
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The Fountainhead's believes that non-conformity has no chance of winning, so she alternates between helping Roark and working to undermine him.
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The Fountainhead recommends Roark to Hopton Stoddard, a wealthy acquaintance who wants to build a Temple of the Human Spirit.
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The Fountainhead's marries Keating and turns herself over to him, doing and saying whatever he wants, and actively persuading potential clients to hire him instead of Roark.
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The character of Howard Roark, the protagonist of The Fountainhead, was the first instance where she believed she had achieved this.
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The Fountainhead's denied that Wright had anything to do with the philosophy expressed by Roark or the events of the plot.
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The Fountainhead loves painting, but his mother steers him toward architecture instead.
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The Fountainhead becomes a social climber, focused on improving his career and social standing using a combination of personal manipulation and conformity to popular styles.
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The Fountainhead follows a similar path in his private life: he chooses a loveless marriage to Dominique instead of marrying the woman he loves—who lacks Dominique's beauty and social connections.
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Dominique Francon is the heroine of The Fountainhead, described by Rand as "the woman for a man like Howard Roark".
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The Fountainhead is Rand's personification of evil—the most active and self-aware villain in any of her novels.
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The Fountainhead's attended a New York lecture by Laski as part of gathering material for the novel, following which she changed the physical appearance of the character to be similar to that of Laski.
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Rand began The Fountainhead following the completion of her first novel, We the Living, in 1934.
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The Fountainhead's therefore conducted extensive research that included reading many biographies and other books about architecture.
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The Fountainhead's worked as an unpaid typist in the office of architect Ely Jacques Kahn.
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The Fountainhead's edited the final manuscript to remove the quotes and other allusions to him.
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The Fountainhead's completed a stage adaptation of We the Living that ran briefly in 1940.
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The Fountainhead's first worked as a volunteer in Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign, and then attempted to form a group for conservative intellectuals.
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The Fountainhead's then used a thesaurus and found 'fountainhead' as a synonym.
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Rand indicated that the primary theme of The Fountainhead was "individualism versus collectivism, not in politics but within a man's soul".
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The Fountainhead's said Dominique wanted and "all but invited" the act, citing, among other things, a passage where Dominique scratches a marble slab in her bedroom to invite Roark to repair it.
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The Fountainhead's sold the movie rights to The Fountainhead and returned to Hollywood to write the screenplay for the adaptation.
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The Fountainhead attracted a new group of fans who were attracted to its philosophical ideas.
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The Fountainhead has continued to have strong sales throughout the last century into the current one.
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The Fountainhead has been cited by numerous architects as an inspiration for their work.
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The Fountainhead said The Fountainhead was not only influential among 20th century architects, but it "was one, first, front and center in the life of every architect who was a modern architect".
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The Fountainhead's said it was the most faithful adaptation of a novel ever made in Hollywood and a "real triumph".
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The Fountainhead's displayed a more negative attitude later, saying she disliked the entire movie and complaining about its editing, acting, and other elements.
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