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Taylor and irrational numbers and calculus must have really made impression on Zamyatin. Just as the ideation of 'sex free for all' that he likely could have perceived around at the time.
Visionary, seer and dystopianist of 1920. ...more
Visionary, seer and dystopianist of 1920. ...more
Published in 1924 after the Russian Revolution, "We" is an early dystopian novel that influenced Orwell's "1984", and Huxley's "Brave New World". It is set a thousand years in the future in the totalitarian OneState where people are identified by numbers instead of names, and wear identical uniforms. OneState is ruled by the Benefactor, and the Guardians spy on the citizens who live in superglass apartments. The only time the blinds can be drawn is during assigned hours for sexual activity. OneS
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Well, Taylor must have really made impression on Zamyatin.
Visionary, seer and dystopianist of 1920.
Visionary, seer and dystopianist of 1920.
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.
As with other dystopian novels, th ...more
As with other dystopian novels, th ...more
Whatever I expected from this book, it certainty wasn't this. Being a Russian book from the 20s, I expected it to be rather dry, perhaps a little technical, concerned with more of the worldbuilding of his sci fi world than character. Boy was I wrong. It is striking how contemporary it is written, it's as much a product of the modernist literary movement as any Joyce or Proustian book. It's written in a vivid, stark, wild stream of consciousness style, with moments of pauses and hedges, with ramb
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