We

by Zamyatin Y.

• ISBN13: 9780380633135
• ISBN10: 0380633132
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780062446947
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140185850
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-07-16
• Publisher: HARPER
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Summary

Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was... WE

In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.

One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.

A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.

''We'' is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences during the Russian revolution of 1905, the Russian revolution of 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond, and work in the Tyne shipyards during the First World War. It was on Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labour on a large scale. Zamyatin was a trained marine engineer, hence his dispatch to Newcastle to oversee ice-breaker construction for the Imperial Russian navy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Zamyatin and the Rooster

Notes to Introduction

Suggestions for Further Reading

Announcement

The Wisest of Lines

An Epic Poem

Ballet

Harmony Squared

X

Jacket

Wall

The Table

Savage with Barometer

Epilepsy

If

Square

Rulers of the World

Pleasant and Useful Function

Accident

Damned "Clear"

24 Hours

An Eyelash

Taylor

Henbane and Lily of the Valley

The Irrational Root

R-13

Triangle

Liturgy

Iambs and Trochees

Cast-Iron Hand

Letter

Membrane

Hairy Me

No, I Can't...

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Limitation of Infinity

Angel

Reflections on Poetry

Fog

Familiar "You"

An Absolutely Inane Occurrence

"Mine"

Forbidden

Cold Floor

Bell

Mirror-like Sea

My Fate to Burn Forever

Yellow

Two-Dimensional Shadow

Incurable Soul

Through Glass

I Died

Hallways

Logical Labyrinth

Wounds and Plaster

Never Again

Third-Order Infinitesimal

A Sullen Glare

Over the Parapet

Discharge

Idea Material

Zero Cliff

An Author's Duty

Swollen Ice

The Most Difficult Love

Frozen Waves

Everything Tends to Perfection

I Am a Microbe

Flowers

Dissolution of a Crystal

If Only

Limit of Function

Easter

Cross It All Out

Descent from Heaven

History's Greatest Catastrophe

End of the Known

The World Exists

A Rash

41[degree] Centigrade

No Contents - Can't

Both Women

Entropy and Energy

Opaque Part of the Body

Threads on the Face

Shoots

Unnatural Compression

The Final Number

Galileo's Mistake

Wouldn't It Be Better?

The Great Operation

I Have Forgiven Everything

A Train Wreck

I Do Not Believe

Tractors

The Human Chip

(No Time for Contents, Last Note)

Those on Leave

A Sunny Night

Radio-Valkyrie

In a Hoop

Carrot

Murder

Blank Pages

The Christian God

About My Mother

Infusorian

Doomsday

Her Room

(I Don't Know What Goes Here, Maybe Just: A Cigarette Butt)

The End

Facts

The Bell

I Am Certain

Translator's Notes

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