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Yevgeny Zamyatin (Author)
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession and writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist government by being a Bolshevik, and an enemy of the Soviet government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative freedom. He wrote short stories, plays and essays, but his masterpiece is We, written in 1920-21 and soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world.

Clarence Brown (Introducer, Translator)
Clarence Brown was a pioneer of Russian literature studies and translation. His brilliant translation of We was based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.



Trade Review
“Zamyatin . . . did more than predict some of the specific characteristics of totalitarianism―he predicted its defining condition: the destruction of the individual. . . . [He] found the word for it: We.” ―Masha Gessen, from the Foreword

“The best single work of science fiction yet written.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

“[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism—human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself—makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” —George Orwell

“At this dystopian moment in world politics, everyone’s talking about 1984, but take a look at the novel that inspired it (or, at least, which George Orwell reviewed soon before he wrote 1984)—Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. . . . The dystopia Zamyatin painted has, alas, many echoes with today’s surveillance society—just think of China’s budding ‘social credit’ program, which monitors citizens’ movements. Big Brother was a piker, compared to Xi Jinping. Zamyatin saw it coming.” —Lit Hub

Table of Contents
We Introduction: Zamyatin and the Rooster
Notes to Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
WERecord 1
Announcement
The Wisest of Lines
An Epic Poem
Record 2
Ballet
Harmony Squared
X
Record 3
Jacket
Wall
The Table
Record 4
Savage with Barometer
Epilepsy
If
Record 5
Square
Rulers of the World
Pleasant and Useful Function
Record 6
Accident
Damned "Clear"
24 Hours
Record 7
An Eyelash
Taylor
Henbane and Lily of the Valley
Record 8
The Irrational Root
R-13
Triangle
Record 9
Liturgy
Iambs and Trochees
Cast-Iron Hand
Record 10
Letter
Membrane
Hairy Me
Record 11
No, I Can't...
Skip the Contents
Record 12
Limitation of Infinity
Angel
Reflections on Poetry
Record 13
Fog
Familiar "You"
An Absolutely Inane Occurrence
Record 14
"Mine"
Forbidden
Cold Floor
Record 15
Bell
Mirror-like Sea
My Fate to Burn Forever
Record 16
Yellow
Two-Dimensional Shadow
Incurable Soul
Record 17
Through Glass
I Died
Hallways
Record 18
Logical Labyrinth
Wounds and Plaster
Never Again
Record 19
Third-Order Infinitesimal
A Sullen Glare
Over the Parapet
Record 20
Discharge
Idea Material
Zero Cliff
Record 21
An Author's Duty
Swollen Ice
The Most Difficult Love
Record 22
Frozen Waves
Everything Tends to Perfection
I Am a Microbe
Record 23
Flowers
Dissolution of a Crystal
If Only
Record 24
Limit of Function
Easter
Cross It All Out
Record 25
Descent from Heaven
History's Greatest Catastrophe
End of the Known
Record 26
The World Exists
A Rash
41 Centigrade
Record 27
No Contents - Can't
Record 28
Both Women
Entropy and Energy
Opaque Part of the Body
Record 29
Threads on the Face
Shoots
Unnatural Compression
Record 30
The Final Number
Galileo's Mistake
Wouldn't It Be Better?
Record 31
The Great Operation
I Have Forgiven Everything
A Train Wreck
Record 32
I Do Not Believe
Tractors
The Human Chip
Record 33
(No Time for Contents, Last Note)
Record 34
Those on Leave
A Sunny Night
Radio-Valkyrie
Record 35
In a Hoop
Carrot
Murder
Record 36
Blank Pages
The Christian God
About My Mother
Record 37
Infusorian
Doomsday
Her Room
Record 38
(I Don't Know What Goes Here, Maybe Just: A Cigarette Butt)
Record 39
The End
Record 40
Facts
The Bell
I Am Certain
Translator's Notes

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 25/11/1993
      ISBN13: 9780140185850, 978-0140185850
      ISBN10: 0140185852
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Yevgeny Zamyatin (Author)
      Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession and writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist government by being a Bolshevik, and an enemy of the Soviet government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative freedom. He wrote short stories, plays and essays, but his masterpiece is We, written in 1920-21 and soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world.

      Clarence Brown (Introducer, Translator)
      Clarence Brown was a pioneer of Russian literature studies and translation. His brilliant translation of We was based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.



      Trade Review
      “Zamyatin . . . did more than predict some of the specific characteristics of totalitarianism―he predicted its defining condition: the destruction of the individual. . . . [He] found the word for it: We.” ―Masha Gessen, from the Foreword

      “The best single work of science fiction yet written.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

      “[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism—human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself—makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” —George Orwell

      “At this dystopian moment in world politics, everyone’s talking about 1984, but take a look at the novel that inspired it (or, at least, which George Orwell reviewed soon before he wrote 1984)—Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. . . . The dystopia Zamyatin painted has, alas, many echoes with today’s surveillance society—just think of China’s budding ‘social credit’ program, which monitors citizens’ movements. Big Brother was a piker, compared to Xi Jinping. Zamyatin saw it coming.” —Lit Hub

      Table of Contents
      We Introduction: Zamyatin and the Rooster
      Notes to Introduction
      Suggestions for Further Reading
      WERecord 1
      Announcement
      The Wisest of Lines
      An Epic Poem
      Record 2
      Ballet
      Harmony Squared
      X
      Record 3
      Jacket
      Wall
      The Table
      Record 4
      Savage with Barometer
      Epilepsy
      If
      Record 5
      Square
      Rulers of the World
      Pleasant and Useful Function
      Record 6
      Accident
      Damned "Clear"
      24 Hours
      Record 7
      An Eyelash
      Taylor
      Henbane and Lily of the Valley
      Record 8
      The Irrational Root
      R-13
      Triangle
      Record 9
      Liturgy
      Iambs and Trochees
      Cast-Iron Hand
      Record 10
      Letter
      Membrane
      Hairy Me
      Record 11
      No, I Can't...
      Skip the Contents
      Record 12
      Limitation of Infinity
      Angel
      Reflections on Poetry
      Record 13
      Fog
      Familiar "You"
      An Absolutely Inane Occurrence
      Record 14
      "Mine"
      Forbidden
      Cold Floor
      Record 15
      Bell
      Mirror-like Sea
      My Fate to Burn Forever
      Record 16
      Yellow
      Two-Dimensional Shadow
      Incurable Soul
      Record 17
      Through Glass
      I Died
      Hallways
      Record 18
      Logical Labyrinth
      Wounds and Plaster
      Never Again
      Record 19
      Third-Order Infinitesimal
      A Sullen Glare
      Over the Parapet
      Record 20
      Discharge
      Idea Material
      Zero Cliff
      Record 21
      An Author's Duty
      Swollen Ice
      The Most Difficult Love
      Record 22
      Frozen Waves
      Everything Tends to Perfection
      I Am a Microbe
      Record 23
      Flowers
      Dissolution of a Crystal
      If Only
      Record 24
      Limit of Function
      Easter
      Cross It All Out
      Record 25
      Descent from Heaven
      History's Greatest Catastrophe
      End of the Known
      Record 26
      The World Exists
      A Rash
      41 Centigrade
      Record 27
      No Contents - Can't
      Record 28
      Both Women
      Entropy and Energy
      Opaque Part of the Body
      Record 29
      Threads on the Face
      Shoots
      Unnatural Compression
      Record 30
      The Final Number
      Galileo's Mistake
      Wouldn't It Be Better?
      Record 31
      The Great Operation
      I Have Forgiven Everything
      A Train Wreck
      Record 32
      I Do Not Believe
      Tractors
      The Human Chip
      Record 33
      (No Time for Contents, Last Note)
      Record 34
      Those on Leave
      A Sunny Night
      Radio-Valkyrie
      Record 35
      In a Hoop
      Carrot
      Murder
      Record 36
      Blank Pages
      The Christian God
      About My Mother
      Record 37
      Infusorian
      Doomsday
      Her Room
      Record 38
      (I Don't Know What Goes Here, Maybe Just: A Cigarette Butt)
      Record 39
      The End
      Record 40
      Facts
      The Bell
      I Am Certain
      Translator's Notes

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