- Eugene Ivanovich Zamyatin - Books

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  • Precursor but ...  

    We, (Paperback)
    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 realis
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  • Jobs of the future?  

    We, (Paperback)
    A fiction or even a book written about the rational absurdity and "mathematical" any totalitarian regime, Zamyatin who will say the precursor of Orwell and Huxley, offers us almost a precursor document (it has undergone the Soviet regime) which
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  • My top 3  

    We, (Paperback)
    It has the merit of being the first, but not that. Whoever starts with Zamyatin will be disappointed by Orwell's 1984 and Huxley best of worlds. Although it is shorter + deep into the psychology of the characters, dehumanization, love and above all b
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  • Towards the Single State globalized ....  

    We, (Paperback)
    Leafing through an old anthology, "science fiction masters", unearthed at the bookshop on the corner, I discovered with astonishment the existence of a novel precursor of the major works of Aldous Huxley ("the best of the world") and G
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  • The first Big Brother  

    We, (Paperback)
    In this novel, Eugene Zamyatin brilliantly anticipates the existence of a totalitarian state (`the United State ') directed here by' The Benefactor ', which with its` Machine' extorts the last remnants of the individual personality and civil libertie
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  • Once upon a time tomorrow  

    We, (Paperback)
    In 1920, Zamyatin yet favorable to the Russian Revolution detects germs of Soviet totalitarianism which he is the subject of his work in laying the foundations of the dystopian genre that will draw later Huxley and Orwell. As against the utopian fict
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  • Equality through streamlined dehumanization  

    We, (Paperback)
    Here is a book and a proper narcotic author: one of the first writers censored by the Soviet regime; incredible anticipation, so incredible that one wonders if this is a conscious choice Zamyatin to show what leads a totalitarian regime, with a "Bene
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  • The work that inspired Orwell's 1984  

    We, (Paperback)
    In this book of 1920, Yevgeny Zamyatin anticipated brilliantly the whole "totalitarian" literature designed to expose the abominations of the Soviet regime. Except that unlike his successors, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, he wrote his book while the reg
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  • A shocking reading  

    We, (Paperback)
    This book is both the SF, the romance, and political structure. The author is Russian and wrote in 1920. We will trust him enough to have a piercing sense of what may be a "strong government." In this strange world, people live in the only state
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