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We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Description for We
Paperback. The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. Translator(s): Randall, Natasha. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.
The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion.
Banned on its publication in Russia in 1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511434
SKU
V9780099511434
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About Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in 1884. He was arrested as a student in 1905 by Tsarist police for being a Bolshevik. He was then sent to England to work on Russian ice breakers in Newcastle. He has been described as a 'dapper, tweedy naval engineer'. He was also a fan of H.G. Wells . After the revolution in 1917 he returned to Russia and worked for Gorky. He was arrested again by the Soviet authorities in 1919 and 1922 and forbidden to publish his work. In 1931 Stalin surprisingly granted him permission to move to Paris. He died there in March, 1937.
Reviews for We
This is a book to look out for
George Orwell Zamyatin reminds us, Adam did not wish to be happy, he wished to be "free"
Anthony Burgess Precursor to much more famous works by Huxley and Orwell, this antidote to totalitarianism, written by someone who genuinely knew what that sort of existence was like, is the anti-Stalinist dystopia to beat them all - even Brave New World, 1984, and Koestler's Darkness at Noon
Toby Green Two of the most iconic novels in the English language - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell - owe an enormous debt to Zamyatin. We is the ur-text of science-fiction dystopias...the product of a powerful imagination
Wall Street Journal
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
Irving Howe
George Orwell Zamyatin reminds us, Adam did not wish to be happy, he wished to be "free"
Anthony Burgess Precursor to much more famous works by Huxley and Orwell, this antidote to totalitarianism, written by someone who genuinely knew what that sort of existence was like, is the anti-Stalinist dystopia to beat them all - even Brave New World, 1984, and Koestler's Darkness at Noon
Toby Green Two of the most iconic novels in the English language - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell - owe an enormous debt to Zamyatin. We is the ur-text of science-fiction dystopias...the product of a powerful imagination
Wall Street Journal
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
Irving Howe