/lit/ - Literature

>>13376697
Most of Rand's work it's absolute garbage, but there's actually a reason for that. She took from Aristotle the epistemological hierarchy of the different fields of philosophy, so for her, the field of aesthetics was the final consequence of the rest of her philosophical framework.
So, according to Rand, the aesthetic consequence of an "objectivist" philosophical framework, at least in literature, was a style where the characters are defined with clear and non-ambiguous moralities (the character can either be good or bad, there's not in between), where there can not be such a thing as a "sad ending", and where the struggle of the "good guys" pays at the end.

So yeah, it's pure crap, and there's no reason you should read her work unless you're really interested in understanding the objectivist philosophy... and even if that was the case, you should have started with her collections of short essays instead of going right to the novels.