
We
introduction by will self
$18.79
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2008
Summary
We: A Dystopian Vision Reborn
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 …
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780099511434 |
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ISBN-10: | 0099511436 |
Series: | Vintage Classics |
Author: | Yevgeny Zamyatin, Will Self, Natasha Randall |
Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 224 |
Release Date: | 31 January 2008 |
Weight: | 159g |
Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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This is a book to look out for
This is a book to look out for – George OrwellZamyatin reminds us, Adam did not wish to be happy, he wished to be “free” – Anthony BurgessPrecursor 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 GreenTwo 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 The Author
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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