We - Evergreens

We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel - here presented in Hugh Aplin's crisp translation - is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.

ISBN:	9781847496768
Publisher:	Alma Books COMMIS
Imprint:	Alma Classics
Published date:	23 Nov 2017
DEWEY:	891.7342
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvi, 233
Weight:	234g
Height:	130mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	19mm

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