Rating: ****
Tags: Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Lang:en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Added: May 13, 2018
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
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.