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Yevgeny Zamyatin


Born
in Lebedian, Russian Federation
February 01, 1884

Died
March 10, 1937

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Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian: Евгений Замятин, sometimes also seen spelled Eugene Zamiatin) Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia (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 We 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
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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 even be worth reading.”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“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.”
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“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
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June 2020 New School Classic Read

 
  93 votes, 28.4%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages
 
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921, 255 pages
 
  41 votes, 12.5%

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, 397 pages
 
  30 votes, 9.1%

 
  28 votes, 8.5%

 
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