Мы
1959Literature: TextsUntranslated Fiction - GeneralLiterature - Classics / CriticismLiterary CriticismRussian & Former Soviet Union
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I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the Integral will be completed in one hundred and twenty days.
I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the Integral will be completed in one hundred and twenty days.
About this book
Wikipedia We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society. The individual's behavior is based on logic by way of formulas and equations outlined by the One State. We is a dystopian novel completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labor on a large scale.
Themes & subjects
Literature: TextsUntranslated Fiction - GeneralLiterature - Classics / CriticismLiterary CriticismRussian & Former Soviet UnionFiction, science fiction, general
First published 1959Characters & people
Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin (1884-1937)Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Setting
Soviet UnionWallsendTynesideEarly 20th century20th century
About the author
Евгений Иванович Замятин
1 February 1884 – 10 March 1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatina, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. Zamyatin is the author of a dystopian novel "Мы" (We) (1921). George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) must be partly derived from We. Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
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