The first Big Brother

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 liberties of his countrymen.

The credo of 'Benefactor' Big Brother
With the assistance of the inventor of the rocket 'Integral', 'The Benefactor' is sure that his `Tape 'overcomes,' because the reason has to overcome. '
He summarizes his cynical gospel in sentences like, 'if the freedom of man is zero, it does not commit a crime'; `Is it not clear that personal conscience is a disease? ' or 'real love for humanity must be inhuman and undeniable sign of sincerity, it is cruelty.'
To expand and maintain its power, it becomes Big Brother: `I had one day to calculate the curve of a new type of street membrane. These membranes, artistically decorated, currently record all conversations from the street to the Office of the Guardians. '

A perfect totalitarian state
Using surreal scenes that are worth a Luis Bunuel, E. Zamyatin recalls his pessimistic view on the future of human life '' on our planet. It is completely dominated and controlled via a perfect totalitarian state by a small oligarchy immoral and unscrupulous to the lives of his subjects '' completely indoctrinated; same sex are planned (sleep with the blinds open or closed).

This novel has influenced both `1984 'by George Orwell as` Best of Aldous Huxley worlds. But it looks more like the latter work, which is also more abstract than `1984 '.

Highly recommended reading.