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《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》PartII官方電影預告








《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》PartI官方電影預告

站前 英文 | 世紀經典小說《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》 純粹資本主義的烏托邦

About Novel

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 a perennial Ayn Rand bestseller, offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.

Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged': What the critics had to say in 1957

In the novel, many of the nation's most brilliant and innovative entrepreneurs and business leaders have disappeared, leaving the nation in chaos. It turns out they have all departed for "Galt's Gulch," a secret and parallel society formed to show an increasingly government-dominated America how much it needs pure capitalism and the men and women who drive it.

In a 2005 speech, Ryan cited Ayn Rand as a key reason he went into politics. He said that he had made "Atlas Shrugged" required reading for his staff, and that he still liked to check his "premises" against passages from the book to be sure "that what I'm believing and doing and advancing are square with the key principles of individualism." Lately, because Rand didn't believe in God and because "Atlas Shrugged" celebrates an adulterous relationship between two of its main characters, Ryan has distanced himself from his former remarks, telling the National Review recently, "I reject her philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy." These days, he said in the interview, he favors Thomas Aquinas over Rand.

But even with all the controversy about the message of "Atlas Shrugged," there's been little discussion of its literary merits. Is it a great book? Here's what the critics had to say at the time of its publication in fall 1957.

假如
你看到阿特拉斯神用肩膀扛起地球
看到他站立著
胸口淌著鮮血
膝蓋正在彎曲
雙臂顫抖
但還在最後的力氣高舉起地球
他越努力
地球就越沉重地向他的肩膀壓下來
他該怎麼辦?你要怎麼建議他?

聳聳肩。

本書於1957年出版，一出版即成為打破美國出版史上銷售紀錄的超級暢銷書。根據1991年美國國會圖書館與每月一書俱樂部的票選，選出十大最具影響力書籍，本書的影響力僅次於《聖經》。有人說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。有個男人說他要停下這世界的發動機，他辦到了。

　　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。

　　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。

《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》書評

★「1957年10月發生兩件重大事件，一是蘇聯發射第一顆人造衛星……其次則是小說《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》出版了。」——《華盛頓時報》

　　★「只要要求每位歐巴馬政府官員與國會議員，都閱讀《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》，那麼，我相信我們會加速擺脫當前的經濟危機。」——Stephen Moore，資深財經專欄作家，〈在52年內從虛構變成現實〉，《華爾街日報》

　　★「每當政府介入市場，就會造成讀者搶購《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》的現象。為什麼？理由可以用Facebook的某社群名稱來解釋……『今天看新聞了嗎？《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》的情節在現實生活中發生了。』」——《經濟學人》

　　★「人們已經開始覺得我們生活在《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》的情節中。那些創造所有事物、對我們有益的成功者，將要進行罷工。」——John Campbell，共和黨眾議員，《華盛頓獨立報》

　　★「許多美國的財富創造者，現在正在進行金融上的罷工。去年秋天在Helen Smith博士的部落格上，將這種現象稱為 “Going Galt”。這是出自艾茵．蘭德著名的小說《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》，指主角約翰．高爾特帶領企業家階層停止生產活動，迫使政府的收入短缺。」——《紐約時報》

　　★「芝加哥的Rick Bail呼應某些人，鼓吹在當前的經濟困境，要求閱讀艾茵．蘭德1957年的小說《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》，因為政府採取了前所未有的控制銀行——這個步驟是蘭德在她大量作品中的警告之一。『我建議歐巴馬總統送給他的外國訪客的第一本書，就是艾茵．蘭德的《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》。唯一的告誡是，在他和整個內閣都已經讀過之前，不能送出這本書。』」——《芝加哥論壇報》

資料參考：
http://atlasshrugged.com/the-book/
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010439235
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/26/opinion/la-oe-schneider-atlas-shrugged-reviews-20120826

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