TY - GEN AU - Zamyatin, Yevgeny TI - We SN - 9780140185850 U1 - 891.7342 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Random House KW - Russian fiction KW - Totalitarianism KW - Group identity KW - Science fiction KW - Russian literature KW - Dystopias N1 - Includes notes and further readings N2 - 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, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is the archetype of the modern dystopia and the forerunner of works such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Suppressed for many years in Russia, it details the fate that might befall us all if we surrender to some collective dream of technology, and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom. 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. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292313/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin-translated-with-an-introduction-and-notes-by-clarence-brown-foreword-by-masha-gessen ER -