Yevgeny Zamyatin

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born

February 01, 1884 in Lebedian, Russian Federation

died

March 10, 1937

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Political Satire

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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

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Books by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Average rating: 3.95 · 10,798 ratings · 887 reviews · 43 distinct works

	We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 10,694 ratings — published 1920 — 83 editions	My rating:
	Мы. Романы, повести, рассказы, сказки by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	The Dragon: Fifteen Stories by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Mirra Ginsburg (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Soviet Heretic by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:
	La inundación by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин, Marta Rebon (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1929 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A God-forsaken Hole 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1913 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bič boží 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	О дивный новый мир by Yevgeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Stanisław Lem 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Пещера 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1920	My rating:

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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

tags: love

116 people liked it

“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

tags: people

60 people liked it

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

tags: revolution

38 people liked it

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