Yevgeny Zamyatin

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.

Роман-антиутопию "Мы" Евгений Замятин написал в 1920 году, когда еще ни одно тоталитарное государство не оформилось. Но книга прозвучала как грозное предупреждение человечеству. Ведь общество, где никакое сопротивление государству невозможно, где человеческая личность с рождения обречена на духовную гибель, вскоре стало реальностью. Не случайно Замятина в СССР подвергли остракизму, и до конца 80-х гг. он пребывал под запретом.

È la fine del terzo millennio, l'umanità vive in uno spazio ipermeccanicizzato e socialmente ipercontrollato, chiuso dalla Muraglia Verde. Gli individui non hanno più un nome, sono alfanumeri. Come D-503, ingegnere al lavoro sul progetto dell'Integrale, la nave spaziale destinata a esportare su altri pianeti il perfetto ordinamento politico dello Stato Unico, dove ogni attività è disciplinata, standardizzata e, soprattutto, visibile a chiunque: tutti gli edifici sono di vetro. È proprio D-503 a raccontare la vicenda della ribelle I-330 e del suo piano per dare inizio a una nuova rivoluzione. Scritto tra il 1919 e il 1921, prontamente censurato (uscito in inglese nel 1924, nel 1952 in russo ma a New York, e solo nel 1988 in URSS), "Noi" è il capostipite di tutte le distopie del Novecento, antesignano di "1984" di Orwell e del "Mondo nuovo" di Huxley.

Descripcion es espanol: Una novela antiutópica, similar a 1984 y Un mundo feliz. Aqui hallamos una sociedad donde, aparentemente, reina la felicidad, bajo la ferrea tutela de un estado unico, regido por una sola persona, al que todos deben obediencia ciega. Han desaparecido los nombtres de las personas: son solo numeros, y estos numeros se visten igual y tienen una vida rigurosamente controlada. En Nosotros, el proyecto utopico se ha desarrollado, pero el resultado es terrible y cruel. Description in English: WE is considered a precursor to George Orwells 1984, a novel which explore similar themes of a domineering government and a disengaged future society with a fantasy-realism element. Being a productive member of this society is the equivalent of being a machine: unemotional, consistent, and scheduled. Certain hours are reserved for sleep and exercise in order to be a more productive worker for the one state,and even relationships are organized to be unemotional and streamlined. It follows the fictional story of a mathematician, D-503. He accidentally falls in love with the revolutionary I-330, who is working to bring down the state and the wall separating them from the rest of the world.

Nós é um romance distópico escrito entre 1920 e 1921 pelo escritor russo Yevgeny Zamyatin. A história narra as impressões de um cientista sobre o mundo em que vive, uma sociedade aparentemente perfeita mas opressora, e seus conflitos ao perceber as imperfeições dele, ao travar contato com um grupo opositor que luta contra o "Benfeitor", regente supremo da nação. O livro só adentrou legalmente a pátria-mãe do autor em 1988, com as políticas de abertura do regime soviético, devido à censura imperante no país.

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It is believed that the novel had a huge influence on the works of Orwell and Huxley, as well as on the emergence of the genre of dystopia. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied it.