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March 27, 2008

The Originality of Atlas Shrugged

What: A talk analyzing the theme and content of Atlas Shrugged. A Q&A will follow.

Who: Tore Boeckmann, speaker for the Ayn Rand Institute

Where: Tufts University, Barnum Hall, Room 104, Medford, MA

When: Monday, March 31, 2008, at 8 pm

Admission is FREE.

Description: Ayn Rand said that "creating a new, original abstraction and translating it through new, original means" is "my kind of fiction writing." Tore Boeckmann tests the originality of Atlas Shrugged in regard to both abstract theme and concrete means by comparing the character of Francisco and the event of the tunnel disaster with similar concretes from Friedrich Schiller's plays (Fiesco and Mary Stuart). The comparison highlights non-obvious ways in which Atlas Shrugged concretizes its theme.

Bio: Tore Boeckmann's mystery short stories have been published and anthologized in several languages. He edited Ayn Rand's The Art of Fiction, and has lectured at Objectivist conferences in America and Europe. Recent publications include "The Fountainhead as a Romantic Novel" and "What Might Be and Ought to Be: Aristotle's Poetics and The Fountainhead" in Essays on Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," edited by Robert Mayhew.

For more information: e-mail media@aynrand.org

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Tore Boeckmann is available for interviews now and after his talk.
Contact: Larry Benson          
E-mail: larryb@aynrand.org          
Phone: (949) 222-6550, ext. 213

For more information on Objectivism's unique point of view, go to ARI's Web site at www.aynrand.org. Founded in 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

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