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THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand. To Frank O’Connor Copyright (c) 1943 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Copyright (c) renewed 1971 by Ayn Rand. All rights reserved. For information address The Bobbs-Merrill Company, a division of Macmillan, Inc., 866 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022. Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Many people have asked me how I feel about the fact that The Fountainhead has been in print for twenty-five years. I cannot say that I feel anything in particular, except a kind of quiet satisfaction. In this respect, my attitude toward my writing is best expressed by a statement of. | THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand ThuVienWnline i . . . . . J . . _ . . Ỉ Hãy mua sách in họp phap dê úng hộ các Đơn vị MU át cán vã các Tac giẼ. Copyright c 1943 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Copyright c renewed 1971 by Ayn Rand. All rights reserved. For information address The Bobbs-Merrill Company a division of Macmillan Inc. 866 Third Avenue New York New York 10022. Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Many people have asked me how I feel about the fact that The Fountainhead has been in print for twenty-five years. I cannot say that I feel anything in particular except a kind of quiet satisfaction. In this respect my attitude toward my writing is best expressed by a statement of Victor Hugo If a writer wrote merely for his time I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Certain writers of whom I am one do not live think or write on the range of the moment. Novels in the proper sense of the word are not written to vanish in a month or a year. That most of them do today that they are written and published as if they were magazines to fade as rapidly is one of the sorriest aspects of today s literature and one of the clearest indictments of its dominant esthetic philosophy concrete-bound journalistic Naturalism which has now reached its dead end in the inarticulate sounds of panic. Longevity-predominantly though not exclusively-is the prerogative of a literary school which is virtually non-existent today Romanticism. This is not the place for a dissertation on the nature of Romantic fiction so let me state--for the record and for the benefit of those college students who have never been allowed to discover it--only that Romanticism is the conceptual school of art. It deals not with the random trivia of the day but with the timeless fundamental universal problems and values of human existence. It does not record or photograph it creates and projects. It is concerned--in the words of Aristotle--not with things as they are but with things as they might be