We

Format:

Book

Title:

Uniform Title:

My. English

Author:

Zami͡atin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937 author

ISBN:

9780140185850

Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1993.

Physical Description:

xxx, 225 pages ; 20 cm.

Series title(s):

Penguin twentieth-century classics.

Contents:

We: Announcement -- Wisest of lines -- Epic poem -- Ballet -- Harmony squared -- X -- Jacket -- Wall -- Table -- Savage with barometer -- Epilepsy -- If -- Square -- Rulers of the world -- Pleasant and useful function -- Accident -- Damned -- "Clear" -- 24 Hours -- Eyelash -- Taylor -- Henbane and lily of the valley -- Irrational root -- R-13 -- Triangle -- Liturgy -- Iambs and trochees -- Cast-iron hand -- Letter -- Membrane -- Hairy me -- No, I can't -- Skip the contents -- Limitation of infinity -- Angel -- Reflections on poetry -- Fog -- Familiar "you" -- Absolutely Inane occurrence -- "Mine" -- Forbidden -- Cold floor -- Bell -- Mirror-like sea -- My fate to burn forever -- Yellow -- Two-dimensional shadow -- Incurable soul -- Through glass -- I died -- Hallways -- Logical labyrinth -- Wounds and plaster -- Never again -- Third-order infinitesimal -- Sullen glare over the parapet -- Discharge -- Idea material -- Zero cliff -- Author's duty -- Swollen ice -- Most difficult love -- Frozen waves -- Everything tends to perfection I am a microbe -- Flowers -- Dissolution of a crystal -- If only -- Limit of function -- Easter -- Cross it all out -- Descent from heaven -- History's greatest catastrophe end of the known -- No contents-Can't -- Both women -- Entropy and energy opaque part of the body -- Threads on the face -- Shoots -- Unnatural compression -- Final number -- Galileo's mistake wouldn't it be better? -- Great operation -- I have forgiven everything -- Train wreck -- I do not believe -- Tractors -- Human chip -- No time for contents, last note -- Those on leave -- Sunny night -- Radio-Valkyrie -- In a hoop -- Carrot -- Murder -- Blank pages -- Christian God -- About my mother -- Infusorian -- Doomsday -- Her room -- I don't know what goes here, maybe just: a cigarette butt -- End -- Facts -- Bell -- I am certain -- Translator's note.

Summary:

Is a dystopian novel completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labour on a large scale.

Subject(s):

Dystopias -- Fiction.

Genre:

Added Author:

Brown, Clarence, 1929-2015

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The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 andforeshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia,featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery- he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World . It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.

Author Notes

Zamyatin studied at the Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg and became a professional naval engineer. His first story appeared in 1908, and he became serious about writing in 1913, when his short novel A Provincial Tale (1913) was favorably received. He became part of the neorealist group, which included Remizov and Prishvin. During World War I, he supervised the construction of icebreakers in England for the Russian government. After his return home, he published two satiric works about English life, "The Islanders" (1918) and "The Fisher of Men" (1922). During the civil war and the early 1920s, Zamyatin published theoretical essays as well as fiction. He played a central role in many cultural activities---as an editor, organizer, and teacher of literary technique---and had an important influence on younger writers, such as Olesha and Ivanov. Zamyatin's prose after the Revolution involved extensive use of ellipses, color symbolism, and elaborate chains of imagery. It is exemplified in such well-known stories as "Mamai" (1921) and "The Cage" (1922). His best-known work is the novel We (1924), a satiric, futuristic tale of a dystopia that was a plausible extrapolation from early twentieth-century social and political trends. The book, which directly influenced George Orwell's (see Vol. 1) 1984, 1984, was published abroad in several translations during the 1920s. In 1927 a shortened Russian version appeared in Prague, and the violent press campaign that followed led to Zamyatin's resignation from a writers' organization and, eventually, to his direct appeal to Stalin for permission to leave the Soviet Union. This being granted in 1931, Zamyatin settled in Paris, where he continued to work until his death. Until glasnost he was unpublished and virtually unknown in Russia. (Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

First published in the Soviet 1920s, Zamyatin's dystopic novel left an indelible watermark on 20th-century culture, from Orwell's 1984 to Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil. Randall's exciting new translation strips away the Cold War connotations and makes us conscious of Zamyatin's other influences, from Dostoyevski to German expressionism. D-503 is a loyal "cipher" of the totalitarian One State, literally walled in by glass; he is a mathematician happily building the world's first rocket, but his life is changed by meeting I-330, a woman with "sharp teeth" who keeps emerging out of a sudden vampirish dusk to smile wickedly on the poor narrator and drive him wild with desire. (When she first forces him to drink alcohol, the mind leaps to Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel.) In becoming a slave to love, D-503 becomes, briefly, a free man. In Randall's hands, Zamyatin's modernist idiom crackles ("I only remember his fingers: they flew out of his sleeve, like bundles of beams"), though the novel sometimes seems prophetic of the onset of Stalinism, particularly in the bleak ending. Modern Library's reintroduction of Zamyatin's novel is a literary event sure to bring this neglected classic to the attention of a new readership. (On sale July 11) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

In Zamyatin's 1924 futuristic novel, humankind has lost its individuality, and everyone is reduced to a number. Protagonist D-503, a mathematician for the One State, thinks he is going insane but actually is falling in love. Unfortunately for him, he's sweet on a revolutionary bent on overthrowing the government. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.