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WE (Dystopian Classic)
This eBook edition of "We" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "We" is a dystopian novel which is set in a dystopian future police state. D-503 lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which allows the secret police/spies to inform on and supervise the public more easily. The structure of the state is analogous to the prison design concept developed by Jeremy Bentham commonly referred to as the Panopticon. Furthermore, life is organized to promote maximum productive efficiency along the lines of the system advocated by the hugely influential F. W. Taylor. People march in step with each other and wear identical clothing. There is no way of referring to people save by their given numbers. Males have odd numbers prefixed by consonants; females have even numbers prefixed by vowels. Along with Jack London's The Iron Heel, We is generally considered to be the grandfather of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre. Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents.
We. Complete Edition with Original Illustrations
✓ "We by Yevgeny Zamyatin best predict and outline the techno-surveillance system that has already begun to take hold in the U.S. and beyond." - Noam Chomsky. ✓ "One of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age." - George Orwell. Plot: On an Earth several hundred years in the future, D-503, the chief engineer who is working on a project that will see the beginning of the conquest of other planets, is watched constantly by the Secret Police. These agents of the One State are dedicated to ensuring compliance at all times and monitor every aspect of his life, from the assigned visits of his lover O-90, to his observance of the strict laws that must be obeyed. But, while on an assigned walk one evening, D-503 encounters the brazen I-330, a woman who shuns the laws. Fascinated by her, he soon finds himself drawn into a plot that is being carefully prepared. The Mephi, an organization dedicated to bringing down not only the One State, but The Green Wall which has been erected to keep One State's citizens apart from the outside world. As the revolution gathers pace, D-503 is forced to have 'The Great Operation' which will remove his imagination and emotions and turn him into a servant of the state, unable to speak out against it in any way or commit any acts of rebellion of law-breaking. But can The One State suppress the Mephi, who appear to have minds of their own and are ready to die for their beliefs? About: We by Evgeny Zamyatin in one of the best dystopian novels ever written and remains a dystopian fiction classic 100 years after it was conceived. This edition is unique due to the Dmitry Mintz, computer-made illustrations, which were not featured in the original edition, making it a must for collectors. From review: ✓ "A too-little-known dystopian narrative from 1921 that has a peculiar resonance in 2018." - Gabrielle Bellot ✓ "Among the best literary science fictions of all time." - Ephrat Livni ✓ "Perhaps the finest science-fiction novel ever written." - Ursula le Guin ✓ "Perhaps the most striking political image in America today and in Zamyatin's novel is the idea of a wall-a crass, simplistic image wielded by Trump to represent keeping supposedly dangerous immigrants at bay, and a more sophisticated image in We representing keeping the outside world itself away." - Gabrielle Bellot
We
'The best single work of science fiction yet written' -- Ursula K. LeGuin Written in 1921 and banned in its native Russia until 1988, We is a uniquely prophetic dystopian satire, fearlessly excoriating the very concept of censorship and predicting the rise of a future police state. In the far-future city of OneState, happiness has been reduced to a simple equation: remove freedom and choice, and create contentment for all. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. The beautiful and mysterious I-330, a dangerous revolutionary, throws the strict rhythms of D-503's existence into chaos, and he soon finds himself diagnosed with that most degrading of ancient diseases - the ownership of a soul. Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel is not only an indictment of totalitarianism and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us. We is a rediscovered classic and a work of tremendous relevance to our own times. "[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 "This is the original modern dystopia, serving as a model for Orwell's 1984. Zamyatin's novel is both worryingly prophetic and amusingly ironic, and thus in certain passages light-hearted in a way Orwell and Huxley (in Brave New World, the other comparison that springs to mind) never manage to be. Passages where the narrator becomes increasingly torn between his loyalty to OneState and his passion for the beautiful female "number" I-330 become increasingly modernist and fragmented in style, showing a formal ambition that also goes beyond Orwell and Huxley's works." - The Guardian We inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), Ayn Rand's Anthem (1938), George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974). About the author Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884--1937) was a Russian author of science-fiction and political satire. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents. Although Zamyatin supported the Communist Party of the Soviet Union before they came to power, he slowly came to disagree with their policies, particularly those regarding censorship of the arts. In his 1921 essay "I Am Afraid," Zamyatin wrote: "True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics." This attitude made his position increasingly difficult as the 1920s wore on. In 1923, Zamyatin arranged for the manuscript of We to be smuggled to E.P. Dutton and Company in New York City. After being translated into English by Gregory Zilboorg, the novel was published in 1924.