We Yevgeny Zamyatin

Name: We By Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Summary

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.

We Summary

We: Introduction by Will Self by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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.

We Reviews

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

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.

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GOR002481951

ISBN 13

9780099511434

ISBN 10

0099511436

Title

We: Introduction by Will Self by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Author

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20071231

Number of pages

224

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