Although Rand's last novel is particularly built on the contrasts and proximity of utopian and dystopian worlds, she plays with these antipodes in her entire fictional oeuvre. Atlas Shrugged thus presents two counter-worlds, no in-between or ambiguous spaces. At the same time, many entrepreneurs dream of the kind of "corporate utopia" that the readers encounter in Galt's Gulch. Advocating a stark individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, Rand's opus magnum Atlas Shrugged (1957) resonates with many Americans' fears that their country may resemble more and more the dystopian world shown in the novel. In the wake of the economic crisis and with the rise of the Tea Party Movement in the United States, Ayn Rand's novels have been (re-)discovered by a large readership.
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