The classic Russian dystopia that inspired Nineteen Eighty-Four and influenced writers from Nabokov to Rand to Vonnegut.
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession and
writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist
government by being a Bolshevik, and an enemy of the Soviet
government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative
freedom. He wrote short stories, plays and essays, but his
masterpiece is We, written in 1920-1921 and soon thereafter
translated into most of the languages of the world.
Clarence Brown was a pioneer of Russian literature studies and
translation. His brilliant translation of We was based on the
corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988
after more than sixty years' suppression.
The best single work of science fiction yet written
*Ursula K. Le Guin*
We is a shapely work of the imagination. As the first major
anti-utopian fiction it famously stood both the Soviet Union and
the Wellsian scientific romance upside down.
*Kirkus*
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