Precursor but ...

A novel that prefigured a kind that could only be born in Russia, the birthplace of modern totalitarianism. The well being for the people, abstract identity but oppression for the individual, real identity. You can locate this kind between the realistic novel and science fiction. Zamyatin book here an anticipation of scientific realism background with a hero more ordinary. The book is known for having inspired Orwell and Huxley. That is its main merit because apart from this narrative is as cold as a Siberian wind and style more linear, almost robotic. So the story is not packed me and we end up getting impatient over the pages. But after all this is a translation error may be there and this style can be a volunteer?

Anyway for those interested in the kind I recommend first reading in 1984 or Brave New World which are the real achievements of this novel "prototype".