Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)
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Zamyatin studied at the Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg and became a professional naval engineer. His first story appeared in 1908, and he became serious about writing in 1913, when his short novel A Provincial Tale (1913) was favorably received. He became part of the neorealist group, mostra altro which included Remizov and Prishvin. During World War I, he supervised the construction of icebreakers in England for the Russian government. After his return home, he published two satiric works about English life, "The Islanders" (1918) and "The Fisher of Men" (1922). During the civil war and the early 1920s, Zamyatin published theoretical essays as well as fiction. He played a central role in many cultural activities---as an editor, organizer, and teacher of literary technique---and had an important influence on younger writers, such as Olesha and Ivanov. Zamyatin's prose after the Revolution involved extensive use of ellipses, color symbolism, and elaborate chains of imagery. It is exemplified in such well-known stories as "Mamai" (1921) and "The Cage" (1922). His best-known work is the novel We (1924), a satiric, futuristic tale of a dystopia that was a plausible extrapolation from early twentieth-century social and political trends. The book, which directly influenced George Orwell's (see Vol. 1) 1984, 1984, was published abroad in several translations during the 1920s. In 1927 a shortened Russian version appeared in Prague, and the violent press campaign that followed led to Zamyatin's resignation from a writers' organization and, eventually, to his direct appeal to Stalin for permission to leave the Soviet Union. This being granted in 1931, Zamyatin settled in Paris, where he continued to work until his death. Until glasnost he was unpublished and virtually unknown in Russia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tecnica della prosa 5 copie
ICS 4 copie
The Cave 3 copie
Navala Apelor 2 copie
A Provincial Tale, A Godforsaken Hole and The Islanders: Uezdnoe, Na kulichkakh i Ostrovitiane (Russian Edition) (2016) 2 copie
Черно слънце 2 copie
WE; THE IRON HEEL; THE AIR TRUST: A Dystopian Trilogy (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 2500) (2014) 2 copie
Relatos satìricos 1 copia
Povesti i rasskazy 1 copia
The Miracle Of Ash Wednesday 1 copia
Nós 1 copia
Sobranie sochineniy v 4-h tomah 1 copia
Spotkanie 1 copia
Selected Short Stories: Mamai, The Cave, Tales for Big Kids, A Story about the Most Important Thing (Russian Edition) (2017) 1 copia
Racconti inglesi 1 copia
Erzählungen 1917-1928 1 copia
Frühe Erzählungen 1 copia
Сказки 1 copia
God 1 copia
Избранное 1 copia
Wie der Mönch Erasmus geheilet ward. Russ. /Dt. Mit dem Essay "Begegnungen mit B. M. Kustodijew" (1922) 1 copia
Нечестивые рассказы 1 copia
The Cave 1 copia
Kristali i snoviđenja 1 copia
О дивный новый мир 1 copia
Opere correlate
Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak (1960) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
7 Novel Dystopian Collection — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Zamjatin, Jevgeni
- Nome legale
- Zamjatin, Jevgeni Ivanovic
- Altri nomi
- Zamyatin, Evgenii
Zamyatin, Evgenii Ivanovich
Zamiatin, Eugene Ivanovich - Data di nascita
- 1884-02-01
- Data di morte
- 1937-03-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cimetière Parisien de Thiais, France
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Rusland
- Luogo di nascita
- Lebedyen, Tambov, Russia
- Luogo di morte
- Parijs, Frankrijk
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Petersburg, Russia
Finland
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK - Istruzione
- St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
journalist
teacher
engineer - Organizzazioni
- Serapion Brothers
Social-Democratic Party
Utenti
Discussioni
We by Zamiatin in Fans of Russian authors (Agosto 2011)
Recensioni
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Favourite Books (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
Modernism (1)
Out of Copyright (1)
Unread books (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Reading Globally (1)
1920s (1)
Futurism Works (1)
"We" narration (1)
Strange Cities (1)
Walls (1)
Best Satire (1)
Folio Society (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 77
- Opere correlate
- 20
- Utenti
- 8,918
- Popolarità
- #2,696
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 220
- ISBN
- 298
- Lingue
- 24
- Preferito da
- 32
The philosophy of the One State and its Benefactor is that happiness can only be achieved by absolute unanimity as though each individual is a cell of one body. The main character D 503 is chief builder of a rocket called the Integral, through which the Benefactor aims to spread his version of happiness to other planets, as the newspaper says: "YOU ARE CONFRONTING UNKNOWN CREATURES ON ALIEN PLANETS, WHO MAY STILL BE LIVING IN THE SAVAGE STATE OF FREEDOM, AND SUBJUGATING THEM TO THE BENEFICIAL YOKE OF REASON. IF THEY WON’T UNDERSTAND THAT WE BRING THEM MATHEMATICALLY INFALLIBLE HAPPINESS, IT WILL BE OUR DUTY TO FORCE THEM TO BE HAPPY. BUT BEFORE RESORTING TO ARMS, WE WILL EMPLOY THE WORD".
Eventually, the One State decides the only way to true uniform "happiness" is through a medical operation to excise the imagination from human brains, which seems to actually lead to the creation of machine conglomerations of people - though these chapters are very unclear and I found myself rather confused at what was going on for a sizable chunk of the book, which is why, despite its powerful overall message about the dangers of mindless collectivism, I don't think it is anywhere near as effective as a dystopian novel as is Orwell's 1984.… (altro)