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Weby Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A superb new translation of the classic dystopian novel Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor'. Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of 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. Synopsis:In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, nameless numbers, survivors of a devastating war, 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. Reputedly the inspiration for Orwell's 1984.
Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxi]-xxxii).
About the AuthorYevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval architect by profession and a writer by nature. His favorite idea was the absolute freedom of the human personality to create, to imagine, to love, to make mistakes, and to change the world. This made him a highly inconvenient citizen of two despotisms, the tsarist and the Communist, both of which exiled him, the first for a year, the latter forever. 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. It first appeared in Russia only in 1988. It is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-utopia; a great prose poem on the fate that might befall all of us if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. George Orwell, the author of 1984, acknowledged his debt to Zamyatin. The other great English dystopia of our time, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, was evidently written out of the same impulse, though without direct knowledge of Zamyatin’s We. Clarence Brown is the author of several works on the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. He is editor of The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader, which contains his translation of Zamyatin’s short story “The Cave,” and of Yury Olesha’s novel Enpy. Clarence Brown is the author of several works on the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. He is editor of The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader, which contains his translation of Zamyatin’s short story “The Cave,” and of Yury Olesha’s novel Enpy. Table of Contents Introduction: Zamyatin and the Rooster Notes to Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading WE Record 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 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 2 comments: 
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