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eumesmo · 07-26-2007, 06:24 PM

Ayn Rand and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Certainly not for the easily susceptible(you don't want to wake up a republican the next morning), but each of the three Novels in my mind, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and The Gulag Archipelago present very distinct Dystopian M.O., but the mother of all Dystopian + Utopian "novels" is my beloved Communist Manifesto, for without it, utopia is merely a platonic musing.

07-26-2007, 06:24 PM	#14
eumesmo Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 272 Join Date: May 2006 Device: Sony Reader	Not forgetting the russians... Ayn Rand and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Certainly not for the easily susceptible(you don't want to wake up a republican the next morning), but each of the three Novels in my mind, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and The Gulag Archipelago present very distinct Dystopian M.O., but the mother of all Dystopian + Utopian "novels" is my beloved Communist Manifesto, for without it, utopia is merely a platonic musing.