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Yevgeny Zamyatin is renowned for satirizing and criticizing the tyranny of the Soviet Union in the 20th century through his literary works. We, his most well-known book, was the first book the Soviet censorship board ever forbade in 1921. We was initially released in English translation in 1924 in New York thanks to an arrangement made by Zamyatin for its smuggling to the West. An envisioned state or society in which there is significant pain or injustice is referred to as a dystopia, which is the opposite of a utopia. In the dystopian novel We, which is set in the future, a world of harmony and conformity is described within a single authoritarian state. It is considered to have exerted a huge influence on the emergence of the genre of dystopia. Moreover, several renowned authors, including George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, were influenced by the novel.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a brilliantly original vision that has influenced authors like George Orwell and Ayn Rand. D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, discovers that he has a unique soul. The residents of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of emotion and creativity in a glass-enclosed city of immutable straight lines, controlled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." We, a dystopian classic set in the year 2600, is considered to be the predecessor of books like George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It remains a thundering scream for individual freedom and was repressed for a long time in Russia. It is also a potent, thrilling, and colorful piece 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.

Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Published: 1924