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Kira Argounova
We the Living character
Black and white image of a woman wearing an ushanka, facing toward the camera and slightly to the viewer's right, her gaze tilted upward.
Alida Valli as Kira Arguonova, as depicted in a movie poster for We the Living (1942)
First appearance1936
Created byAyn Rand
Portrayed byAlida Valli

Kira Argounova is the protagonist of We the Living, a 1936 novel by Ayn Rand.

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Background

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Published in 1936, We the Living was the debut novel of Ayn Rand, an author born and initially raised in Soviet Russia who moved to the United States in 1926.[1]

Fictional biography

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[] She aspires to be an engineer.[2]

Textual history

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Interpretation

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In adaptations

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References

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  1. ^ Vukadinović (2018, pp. 232–233).
  2. ^ Brühwiler (2015, p. 146)

Sources

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  • Britting, Jeff (2012). "Adapting We the Living". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 181–208. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
  • Brown, Susan Love (1999). "Ayn Rand: The Woman Who Would Not Be President". In Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (eds.). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 275–298. ISBN 978-0-271-01831-7.
  • Brown, Susan Love (2007). "Beyond the 'Stillborn Aspiration': Virtuous Sexuality in Atlas Shrugged". In Younkins, Edward W. (ed.). Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion. Routledge. pp. 279–294. doi:10.4324/9781315568591. ISBN 978-0754655336.
  • Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska (February 2015). "'Prospector and Jeweler': Ayn Rand on the Relationship between Politics and Literature". Journal of American Studies. 49 (1): 143–158. doi:10.1017/S0021975814001820. JSTOR 24485802.
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  • Lewis, John David (2012). "Kira's Family". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 333–350. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
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  • Maurone, Joseph (Spring 2002). "The Trickster Icon and Objectivism". Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. 3 (2): 229–258. JSTOR 41560188.
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  • Mayhew, Robert (2012). "Kira Argounova Laughed: Humor and Joy in We the Living". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 351–362. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
  • Mayhew, Robert (2012). "We the Living '36 and '59". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 209–242. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
  • McConnell, Scott (2012). "Parallel Lives: Models and Inspirations for Characters in We the Living". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 45–64. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
  • Milgram, Shoshana (2012). "From Airtight to We the Living: The Drafts of Ayn Rand's First Novel". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 1–44. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
  • Milgram, Shoshana (2012). "The Education of Kira Argounova and Leo Kovalensky". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 85–112. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
  • Offord, Derek (2022). Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right. Russian Shorts. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350283930.
  • Salmieri, Gregory (2016). "The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values)". In Gotthelf, Alan; Salmieri, Gregory (eds.). A Companion to Ayn Rand. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 47–72. doi:10.1002/9781118324950. ISBN 9781405186841.
  • Vukadinović, Vojin Saša (2018). "We the Living: The First American Novel on Soviet Russia, the Soul of 'Any Dictatorship,' and Its Aftermath in the Cold War". American Communist History. 17 (2): 232–246. doi:10.1080/14743892.2018.1464869. ISSN 1474-3892.
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