1969, nonfiction
The Romantic Manifesto
Rand's philosophy of art: art as a selective re-creation of reality according to the artist's values, the idea of a "sense of life", and her defence of Romanticism in literature.
Revised edition 1975.
Ideas it carries
- Romantic realism and sense of life
Rand's view of art as a concretisation of values, and of the emotional sum of a person's view of existence.