WeThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed 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. |
Contents
V | 3 |
VI | 5 |
VII | 11 |
VIII | 16 |
X | 21 |
XI | 25 |
XII | 33 |
XIII | 39 |
XXVII | 121 |
XXVIII | 125 |
XXIX | 130 |
XXX | 135 |
XXXI | 143 |
XXXII | 147 |
XXXIII | 154 |
XXXIV | 163 |
XIV | 45 |
XV | 50 |
XVI | 59 |
XVII | 64 |
XVIII | 69 |
XIX | 75 |
XX | 78 |
XXI | 83 |
XXII | 90 |
XXIII | 97 |
XXIV | 104 |
XXV | 110 |
XXVI | 114 |
XXXV | 167 |
XXXVI | 171 |
XXXVII | 180 |
XXXVIII | 187 |
XXXIX | 189 |
XL | 198 |
XLII | 205 |
XLIII | 210 |
XLIV | 215 |
XLV | 218 |
XLVI | 224 |
XLVII | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aero already Ancient House arms auditorium Benefactor blinds blue breath Bureau of Guardians CLARENCE BROWN clear dark day after tomorrow dear door dream dystopias earth Entropy everything eyes face feel felt floor flying Frederick Winslow Taylor George Orwell glass grabbed Green Wall hand happened happiness head hear henbane hurry inside INTEGRAL kind knew laugh Lebedyan Lidové noviny lily-of-the-valley lips Listen looked Mephi minute mirror mouth Musical Factory never Numbers okay once OneState pink ticket remember Riddley Walker round Russian shadow sharp shoulder shouted sick silence Slonim slowly smile someone someone's somewhere standing steps strange stupid stupid dreams suddenly sweet band talking tell there's thing thought tomorrow trembling Trochees turned voice wait walk wardrobe What's whole wind woman word yellow yesterday YEVGENY ZAMYATIN yuny Zamyatin