{"product_id":"we-paperback-1","title":"We - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClarence Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eClarence Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's \u003ci\u003e1984 \u003c\/i\u003eand foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e journalist Masha Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, \u003ci\u003eWe \u003c\/i\u003eis the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's\u003ci\u003e 1984\u003c\/i\u003e and Aldous Huxley's\u003ci\u003e Brave New World\u003c\/i\u003e. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin\u003c\/b\u003e (1884-1937) was a naval architect by profession and a writer by nature. His favorite idea was the absolute freedom of the human personality to create, to imagine, to love, to make mistakes, and to change the world. This made him a highly inconvenient citizen of two despotisms, the tsarist and the Communist, both of which exiled him--the first for a year, the latter forever. He wrote short stories, plays, and essays, but his masterpiece is \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1920-21 and soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world, yet it first appeared in Russia only in 1988. It is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-utopia; a great prose poem on the fate that might befall all of us if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. George Orwell, the author of \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, acknowledged his debt to Zamyatin. The other great English dystopia of our time, Aldous Huxley's \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, was evidently written out of the same impulse, though without direct knowledge of Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eClarence Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (translator\/introducer; 1929-2015) was the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, which contains his translation of Zamyatin's short story The Cave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasha Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of more than ten books, including the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin\u003c\/i\u003e. A staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684492251199,"sku":"9780140185850","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/98f7a684bf6f9312a5c925b53d151f1a.webp?v=1764967683","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/we-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}