From the Bookshelf of Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
In college I majored in Russian literature, and this was required for a course in Soviet Literature in Translation; as you will see if you read the synopsis, the English version was the only one available to us in 1968, and that was the case with several of the books we read in that class.
Zamyatin's We has been credited with inspiring such later dystopias as 1984, Brave New World, Player Piano and The Dispossessed. Zamyatin wrote out of disillusionment with the revolution which he had at first s ...more
Zamyatin's We has been credited with inspiring such later dystopias as 1984, Brave New World, Player Piano and The Dispossessed. Zamyatin wrote out of disillusionment with the revolution which he had at first s ...more
Phenomenal. I have a soft spot for dystopias, and this one is before all of them. The author creates a fantastic picture of a world future. It's hard to believe that this book is as old as it is. The author envisions petroleum-based food products, all wrapped in the One State complete with total control and conformity. I can't believe this book isn't assigned in school during the same unit where we read Brave New World and 1984. I can definitely see the ways that this book influenced both of tho
...more
Jan 07, 2017
Tonks
marked it as to-read
