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Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Canongate (Faber)
- by introduction by Margaret Atwood
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Publisher | Canongate (Faber) |
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ISBN | 9781838850586 |
Author(s) | introduction by Margaret Atwood |
Publication date | November 2020 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 220 x 144 mm |
Pages | 304 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And Chief Engineer D-503 is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.
A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, We is a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. It is both a warning and a hope for a better world.
This new edition also includes Ursula Le Guin's essay Stalin in the Soul on the enduring influence of Zamyatin's masterpiece, and George Orwell's 1946 review of We.
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