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This edition of the book (McAllister Editions 2021) is very poor. Aside from being displeasing to the eye, the text itself contains quite a few errors. Errors, specifically, that it seems unlikely that a human would make. My guess is that they used scanning and/or AI to capture the content (which I believe is public domain at this point) and then print it into some books. It feels like what it is, which is a cheap cash grab. As for the book itself, the reader will see points of commonality between We and 1984 or Brave New World. While interesting, We is clearly the work of an inferior novelist.
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Mar 19, 2009
Nineteen Twenty-One
This dystopian book is similar in many ways to Nineteen Eighty-Four, but was written over twenty years earlier in bolshevik Russia. Zamyatin perceives a future in which a tiny number of survivors on Earth live in the domed city of the "One State", where their every action is regulated to the last chew of their food.
Protagonist and narrator D-503 is writing a series of notes to the 'aliens' intended to be contacted via the Integral (basically, a spaceship) that he is in charge of building. The plan is to convert even extra-terrestials to the peace and solidarity of the One State. But when D-503 encounters the heretical and elusive I-330, both his life and the narrative start to run off the rails.
Zamyatin tentatively explores conformity, both in the in 'top-down' dictatorship from the Benefactor and in the pressure of the citizens' peers. Every wall in the One State is glass; every action (except sex) is open to view. This lack of privacy is similar to Orwell's ubiquitous viewscreens, except that here, there is literally no corner in which to hide.
Sadly, D-503 proves to be no hero.
This translation is readable and the story moves along at a reasonable pace. The book is only short, especially when compared to Orwell's lengthy tome. Definitely worth reading both in order to make a comparison, and it was instructive to see where Orwell may have got some of his ideas.
