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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Start date: August 1, 2020

Finish date: August 31, 2020

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Sep 12, 2021 Josh Caporale rated it liked it · review of another edition

We is a dystopian novel written as journal entries by D-503, who is constructing the Integral for the One State. This novel would serve as an inspiration for plenty of dystopian novels that would follow, in particular 1984 and while it does bring up so haunting projections and especially those that would be evident in Soviet Russia, the plot itself was dense and the characters did not necessarily stick out. After reading it twice, 1984 got further under my skin.

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Dec 24, 2015 ULa rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Mar 31, 2021 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it liked it

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Having heard that Zamyatin's book, We, inspired later dystopian novels, such as George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, I was looking forward to reading We. However, it did not grab and hold me like the other books mentioned did. I found the writing style dry (I have read it was supposed to read this way as the narrator was a mathematician ruled by logic), but the style kept me from feeling empathy for the characters.

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