This translation preceded the first Russian edition, which did not appear until 1988. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly nave and so frighteningly complex. The novel is dystopian because, while OneState’s members perceive their society as operating perfectly, the author’s intention was likely to reveal the worst of all situations. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. Zamyatin wrote We as an imitation of, perhaps even a warning against, the totalitarian tendencies he perceived in the Soviet Union following the Revolution. Zamyatin was seen as a dissident, his subsequent literary output suppressed, and eventually he personally wrote to Stalin to request exile rather than starve at home. Yevgeny Zamyatin We, Two-Gunner Pulp Press 13 Copy quote Children are the boldest philosophers. A Czech language edition followed, where it was condemned by a state-sponsored literary group. The novel was banned by the new Soviet censorship bureau in 1921 and was first published, in English, in New York in 1924. We is an icily etched portrait of a dehumanized society of the future with its ubiquitous timetables, days set aside for sexual activities, glass-box living accommodation and ever-alert watch-dog police, presided over by 'The Benefactor'' (from the blurb). Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece: 'a remarkable Utopian fantasy, a landmark in world literature, the precursor of and almost certainly the model for 'Brave New World' and '1984'. A crisp, clean copy, with just a little rubbing to jacket edges. With the striking purple dust-jacket designed by Stanley Chapman, priced at 35s / £1.75. Since its publication over a century ago, Zamyatin’s novel has picked up a number of high-profile admirersEcco’s edition of this new translation by Bela Shayevich features reprinted writings on. tour through the literary world of Zamyatins masterpiece We.

Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yevgeny Zamjatins novel We (1924) shows a picture of a supposedly perfect world.

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