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We

Author
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
6 hours 15 minutes
ISBN
9781802560480
Published
1 September 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • dystopian
  • totalitarian
  • individuality
  • rebellion
  • freedom
  • conformity
  • authoritarianism
  • future society
  • conflict
  • state control

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"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a seminal dystopian novel set in a future totalitarian society where individuality is suppressed. The story follows D-503, a mathematician working on the spaceship Integral, who begins to question the regime through his relationship with the rebellious I-330. As he grapples with forbidden emotions and dreams of freedom, D-503's journey exposes the conflict between personal liberty and state control. Zamyatin's haunting narrative is a powerful critique of conformity and authoritarianism.

Author

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) trained as a naval engineer in St Petersburg, sailed icebreakers, joined the Bolsheviks, and then wrote against the new demand for one soul. We is the glass city of numbered citizens, a Benefactor, and a love that cracks the equation — the dystopia Huxley and Orwell would later inhabit. He was allowed to leave; he died in Paris. The engineer's eye never left the page. Light, here, is not freedom.

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