Yevgeny Zamyatin





Yevgeny Zamyatin

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born
February 01, 1884 in Lebedian, Russian Federation

died
March 10, 1937

gender
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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


Average rating: 3.95 · 10,798 ratings · 887 reviews · 43 distinct works
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 10,694 ratings — published 1920 — 83 editions
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Мы. Романы, повести, расска...
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1989
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The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions
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A Soviet Heretic
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions
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Islanders And, The Fisher O...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
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La inundación
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1929 — 3 editions
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A God-forsaken Hole
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1913 — 2 editions
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Bič boží
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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О дивный новый мир
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006
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Пещера
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1920
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More books 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

“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...”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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