aaron2001's Full Review: Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin and Clarence Brown - We
We is one of those books that had me captivated from the moment I set my eyes on the first page, and has kept my attention ever since.
Written around the years 1920-1921 it stirred up much anger and controversies due to the current socialist regime that was starting to rear its ugly head in Soviet Russia. This eventually led to Yevgeny being forced to leave his homeland if he was to continue his writing, so in 1931, much to his surprise, he was granted permission from Stalin himself to leave for Paris. In Paris Yevgeny spent his last years living a lonely life until he died of heart disease in 1937.
The inspiration Yevgeny Zamyatin drew on for his novel was from what he sore going on around him, the totalitarianism, its reign of brutality and the affect it was having on the creative human spirit. What Yevgeny saw was terror, betrayal and dehumanization.
The result of all this anger was We, the story of a bleak future ruled by a totalitarian government.
In We there are no individuals, know one has a name but instead a serial number, all the primitive instincts man once had are long gone, replaced with a life of precise mathematical equations. The book is written in the style of a series of log entries reflecting the thoughts of a chief architect, number D-503, in his final days working on the Integral, a space ship that will take society to the new frontier.
Before completion of the Integral, D-503 meets a female numbered I-330 who leads him to question everything he believes about himself and helps him discover a disease the ancients once called a soul.
We is a classic piece of literature and a wonder of SF, it brings us a warning that is as relevant today as it was in 1920.
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