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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Start date: May 1, 2017

Finish date: May 31, 2017

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Jul 04, 2017 ☯Emily Ginder rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 20th-century-classics, read-in-2017, 2017-classics-for-beginners-challe, classics, dystopian

This is an important Dystopian book that greatly influenced George Orwell's 1984. His review of the book is here: http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/zamy...

I did not find "We" as interesting as 1984, probably because the narrator is a mathematician who views the whole universe in mathematical terms. Since I do not, the constant reference to math was tiresome and incomprehensible.

The major theme of the book is the regimentation of society. Human beings have no personal identity: they are numbers an ...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Anna Tatelman rated it it was amazing

A fantastic dystopian novel. The language is both poetically mesmerizing and rich, the plot and symbols are very well thought out, and the characters are fantastic. I'm not sure if it should be described as a "sci-fi" novel, as the actual "science" isn't incredibly well-developed (an operation to remove the imagination, for instance - how is that possible?), but as symbols, they work beautifully. Besides, the point of the novel isn't the science, but the richer meanings of individuality, greatne ...more

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