We: New Translation

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.

Product details

• Authors: Evgenij Samjatin, Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Assisted by: Hugh Aplin (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.11.2017
• EAN: 9781847496768
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-676-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Evergreens; Alma Classics Evergreens; Evergreens
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature