「Who is John Galt?」全人類尋找中!
如果有一天,支撐地球的阿特拉斯聳聳肩膀
放下地球一走了之,你我的命運會是如何?
★繼《聖經》之後影響當代美國人最大的一本書!
★出版即成為打破美國出版史上銷售紀錄的超級暢銷書!
★安潔莉娜裘莉、布萊德彼特、金凱瑞、葛林斯班、雷根、希拉蕊柯林頓——他們都是蘭德的超級粉絲!
★美國精神就等於耶穌加上蘭德,不了解蘭德,就無法真正了解美國精神。
「我以我的生命以及我對它的熱愛發誓,我永遠不會為別人而活,也不會要求別人為我而活。」
有個男人說他要停下這世界的發動機,他辦到了。
在近未來的世界裡,美國是世上碩果僅存的少數資本主義國家。塔格特鐵路公司的副總裁達格妮,是位積極進取、聰明漂亮又野心勃勃的企業家,她亟欲挽救搖搖欲墜的公司,過程中卻不斷遭受政府的不當作為,最終導致全國經濟崩潰,災難頻傳。更詭異的是全國有能力的企業家和員工,竟然一個個相繼退出職場,或從地球上人間蒸發。
此時,所有人都開始尋找十二年前突然神秘消失的那位天才工程師,期待他帶來解救世界的方法……
這個令人震驚的故事,百萬字的史詩鉅作,不論是內容幅度之廣,或驚人的懸疑性,都將打破你以往所有的閱讀經驗。這是個推理故事,但卻不是肉體的謀殺,而是人類精神的謀殺與重生。
小說一開頭從「Who is John Galt?」(約翰.高爾特是誰?)這句永恆的問句開始,蘭德發現了完美的藝術形式,來表達她對人類存在的看法,以及她獨特的哲學。《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》讓蘭德不僅成為當代最受歡迎的小說家之一,也使她成了最具影響力的傳奇思想家。
★本書中譯版《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》由太陽社出版。
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller--nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism--her groundbreaking philosophy--offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.