"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Buddy read for the Dozen Roses Game.

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edit:

I am the most sorry but we have an earlier, more active buddy read thread for We, linked below, so I'm closing this one.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Olga]

I started reading the book, but totally forgot to add it to GR and leave my impressions here.

I made little progress, only 17 pages so far.

First. Strong Orwell vibes.

Second. Maybe I need to take a peek at English translation of the book. I sincerely pity the translators who worked with this book. Have no idea how they managed to convey all the subtle hints at the realia that were contemporary for the book. If they actually managed to do that, they are real heroes.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

We definitely missed some, but I thought my version was pretty dang good at getting some of the jokes and references across.

[Olga]

Allison wrote: "We definitely missed some, but I thought my version was pretty dang good at getting some of the jokes and references across."

Who was the translator in your version? (if you can look it up, of course; if it's not in your library, don't bother)

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Hmm...I think it's Gregory Zilboorg, 1924

[Olga]

Thanks, I'll try to find this translation to see how he managed to preserve a few of things that would have blown my brain if I were to translate this )))