![]() ![]() Naturally, Zamyatin faced more harassment and punishment for his political views than any of his peers in dystopian literature, and he faced it in both pre- and post-revolutionary Russia. It follows that to be original is to violate the principle of equality." ![]() Beauty - as well as its companion, art - are a kind of heresy in the One State, because "to be original means to distinguish yourself from others. ![]() Trust in the system is absolute.Įquality is enforced, to the point of disfiguring the physically beautiful. They spy on citizens, who all live in apartments made of glass so that they can be perfectly observed. This world is ruled by the Benefactor, and presided over by the Guardians. Citizens are known only by their number, and the story's protagonist is D-503, an engineer working on a spaceship that aims to bring the glorious principles of the Revolution to space. The novel is set 1,000 years after a revolution that brought the One State into power. Zamyatin wrote We within a few years of the Russian Revolution in 1917. I've loved all of the above, but the dystopian novel most relevant to our time is Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, which predated Orwell and Huxley, and obviously inspired the former. ![]()
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