Yevgeny Zamyatin
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born
February 01, 1884
died
March 10, 1937
gender
male
place of birth
Lebedian, Russian Federation
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
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 our gray-blue ranks. And...more
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 3.97 — 2,082 ratings — published 1972 48 editions |
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The Dragon: Fifteen Stories by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 3.73 — 15 ratings — published 1972 4 editions |
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A Soviet Heretic by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 1970 4 editions |
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WE: A XXI-century Translation by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2003 |
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A God-forsaken Hole by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 1988 2 editions |
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L'inondation by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1990 3 editions |
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Sobranie Sochinenii by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2003 |
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Бич Божий by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2005 2 editions |
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Избранные произведения. Повести. Рассказы. Сказки. Роман. Пьесы by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1989 |
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Le Fléau de dieu by Yevgeny Zamyatin avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1975 |
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"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)
— Yevgeny Zamyatin (We)
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"A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading"
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