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By Yevgeny Zamyatin
Foreword by Masha Gessen
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Translated by Clarence Brown
Notes by Clarence Brown

By Yevgeny Zamyatin
Foreword by Masha Gessen
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Translated by Clarence Brown
Notes by Clarence Brown

By Yevgeny Zamyatin
Foreword by Masha Gessen
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Translated by Clarence Brown
Notes by Clarence Brown

By Yevgeny Zamyatin
Foreword by Masha Gessen
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Translated by Clarence Brown
Notes by Clarence Brown

By Yevgeny Zamyatin
Foreword by Masha Gessen
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Translated by Clarence Brown
Notes by Clarence Brown

By Yevgeny Zamyatin
Foreword by Masha Gessen
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Translated by Clarence Brown
Notes by Clarence Brown

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    About We

    The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen

    Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity – until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work 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.

    About We

    A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell’s 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen

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    In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful “Benefactor,” the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity—until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: He has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is the archetype of the modern dystopia and the forerunner of works such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Suppressed for many years in Russia, it details the fate that might befall us all if we surrender to some collective dream of technology, and remains a resounding cry for individual 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.

    Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as “Penguin of one’s life”—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

    About We

    The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia

    Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity – until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work 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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Science Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Aug 01, 1993 | 240 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140185850

    Category: Classic Fiction | Science Fiction

    Hardcover | $27.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Dec 14, 2021 | 240 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143136293

    Category: Classic Fiction | Science Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Aug 01, 1993 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781101078242

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    Praise

    “Zamyatin . . . did more than predict some of the specific characteristics of totalitarianism―he predicted its defining condition: the destruction of the individual. . . . [He] found the word for it: We.” ―Masha Gessen, from the Foreword

    “The best single work of science fiction yet written.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

    “[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism—human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself—makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” —George Orwell
     
    “At this dystopian moment in world politics, everyone’s talking about 1984, but take a look at the novel that inspired it (or, at least, which George Orwell reviewed soon before he wrote 1984)—Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. . . . The dystopia Zamyatin painted has, alas, many echoes with today’s surveillance society—just think of China’s budding ‘social credit’ program, which monitors citizens’ movements. Big Brother was a piker, compared to Xi Jinping. Zamyatin saw it coming.” —Lit Hub

    Table Of Contents

    We Introduction: Zamyatin and the Rooster
    Notes to Introduction
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    WERecord 1
    Announcement
    The Wisest of Lines
    An Epic Poem
    Record 2
    Ballet
    Harmony Squared
    X
    Record 3
    Jacket
    Wall
    The Table
    Record 4
    Savage with Barometer
    Epilepsy
    If
    Record 5
    Square
    Rulers of the World
    Pleasant and Useful Function
    Record 6
    Accident
    Damned “Clear”
    24 Hours
    Record 7
    An Eyelash
    Taylor
    Henbane and Lily of the Valley
    Record 8
    The Irrational Root
    R-13
    Triangle
    Record 9
    Liturgy
    Iambs and Trochees
    Cast-Iron Hand
    Record 10
    Letter
    Membrane
    Hairy Me
    Record 11
    No, I Can’t…
    Skip the Contents
    Record 12
    Limitation of Infinity
    Angel
    Reflections on Poetry
    Record 13
    Fog
    Familiar “You”
    An Absolutely Inane Occurrence
    Record 14
    “Mine”
    Forbidden
    Cold Floor
    Record 15
    Bell
    Mirror-like Sea
    My Fate to Burn Forever
    Record 16
    Yellow
    Two-Dimensional Shadow
    Incurable Soul
    Record 17
    Through Glass
    I Died
    Hallways
    Record 18
    Logical Labyrinth
    Wounds and Plaster
    Never Again
    Record 19
    Third-Order Infinitesimal
    A Sullen Glare
    Over the Parapet
    Record 20
    Discharge
    Idea Material
    Zero Cliff
    Record 21
    An Author’s Duty
    Swollen Ice
    The Most Difficult Love
    Record 22
    Frozen Waves
    Everything Tends to Perfection
    I Am a Microbe
    Record 23
    Flowers
    Dissolution of a Crystal
    If Only
    Record 24
    Limit of Function
    Easter
    Cross It All Out
    Record 25
    Descent from Heaven
    History’s Greatest Catastrophe
    End of the Known
    Record 26
    The World Exists
    A Rash
    41 Centigrade
    Record 27
    No Contents – Can’t
    Record 28
    Both Women
    Entropy and Energy
    Opaque Part of the Body
    Record 29
    Threads on the Face
    Shoots
    Unnatural Compression
    Record 30
    The Final Number
    Galileo’s Mistake
    Wouldn’t It Be Better?
    Record 31
    The Great Operation
    I Have Forgiven Everything
    A Train Wreck
    Record 32
    I Do Not Believe
    Tractors
    The Human Chip
    Record 33
    (No Time for Contents, Last Note)
    Record 34
    Those on Leave
    A Sunny Night
    Radio-Valkyrie
    Record 35
    In a Hoop
    Carrot
    Murder
    Record 36
    Blank Pages
    The Christian God
    About My Mother
    Record 37
    Infusorian
    Doomsday
    Her Room
    Record 38
    (I Don’t Know What Goes Here, Maybe Just: A Cigarette Butt)
    Record 39
    The End
    Record 40
    Facts
    The Bell
    I Am Certain
    Translator’s Notes

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