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We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel – here presented in Hugh Aplin's crisp translation – is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.
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We, Jevgenij Ivanovič Zamjatin
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- Publicado en
- 2017
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- Título
- We
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Jevgenij Ivanovič Zamjatin
- Editorial
- Alma Classics
- Publicado en
- 2017
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1847496768
- ISBN13
- 9781847496768
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Ciencia ficción, Clásicos, Regalos para hombres, Rusia, Adaptada al cine, Distopía, Literatura rusa, Sátira, Libertad, Utopía, Dictadura, Totalitarismo, Ciencia ficción humorística, Estado totalitario, Diarios ficticios
- Primera publicación
- 1920
- Título original
- Мы (My)
- Calificación
- 3,9 de 5
- Descripción
- We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel – here presented in Hugh Aplin's crisp translation – is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.