Yevgeny Zamyatin



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Yevgeny Zamyatin

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born
in Lebedian, Russian Federation
February 01, 1884

died
March 10, 1937

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Political Satire


About this author

Евгений Замятин
Yevgeny Zamyatin (Евгений Замятин) Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia My (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). The book was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was rehabilitated. In the English-speaking world My has appeared in several translations.

"And then, just the way it was this morning in the hangar, I saw again, as though right then for the first time in my life, I saw everything: the unalterably straight streets, the sparkling glass of the sidewalks, the divine parallelepipeds of the transparent dwellings, the squared harmony of...more


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Average rating: 3.96 · 19,198 ratings · 1,199 reviews · 57 distinct works · Similar authors
We
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 18,783 ratings — published 1920 — 96 editions
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Мы. Романы, повести, расска...
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1989
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The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions
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A Soviet Heretic
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions
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Islanders And, The Fisher O...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1917 — 5 editions
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Frühe Erzählungen
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2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1991
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О дивный новый мир
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A God-forsaken Hole
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1913 — 2 editions
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La inundación
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1929 — 5 editions
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Bič boží
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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We
Ausgewählte Werke in vier Bänden (4 books)
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Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
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“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
tags: endings, knowing, life, novel, people, worth
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“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
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