Bøger af Yevgeny Zamyatin

A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood

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.

Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel - here presented in Hugh Aplin's crisp translation - is a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.

From the stark depictions of rural Russia in 'Provincial Life' to the vivid portrayal of an artillery unit in 'At the End of the Earth', from stories such as 'The Cave' and 'Mamai', describing the terrible conditions endured by the citizens of Petrograd in the years of the civil war, to 'X', a light-hearted, slightly absurdist example of metafiction, through to the sombre tones of the final story in this volume, 'Flood', this volume collects some of the best fiction by the celebrated author of We.Presented in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin, these stories - some of them never translated before into English - show why Zamyatin's oeuvre as a whole is worthy of greater recognition today, not just for the context it affords readers of his most famous novel, but also for the light it can shed on Russian literature, culture and society of its time - as well as, most importantly, for its own intrinsic merit.

1984. Brave New World. A Clockwork Orange. These are the dystopian novels we know. But before these was the Russian masterpiece We, the novel that foreshadowed and influenced them all. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled by the all-powerful "Benefactor," the nameless citizens of OneState live without passion or creativity, regulated and watched by their totalitarian masters. Without such order, their leaders claim, happiness is impossible. Freedom brings misery. And the collective "we" is all that matters. But one day, D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.

My Evgenija Zamjatina - znakovyj roman, s kotorogo oficial'no otschityvajut samo sushhestvovanie zhanra antiutopija. Dejstvie razvorachivaetsja priblizitel'no v tridcat' vtorom veke. Roman opisyvaet obshhestvo zhestkogo totalitarnogo kontrolja nad lichnost'ju. Zapreshhennyj v sovetskij period, on javljaetsja klassicheskim proizvedeniem ne tol'ko russkoj, no i mirovoj literatury HH veka, i pervoistochnikom romana 1984 Dzhordzha Orujella. Roman ob obshhestve ravnyh, v kotorom chelovecheskaja lichnost' svedena k lichnomu nomeru (imena i familii zameneny bukvami i nomerami, gosudarstvo kontroliruet absoljutno vse. Posle razrushitel'noj dvuhsotletnej vojny pogibaet 98% procentov naselenija Zemli. Ostavshiesja ljudi, zhertvuja svoej lichnoj svobodoj i individual'nost'ju, sozdajut Edinoe gosudarstvo - oplot porjadka, edinenija i ravenstva. Shiller skazal: Ljubov' i golod pravjat mirom. Osnovateli Edinogo gosudarstva pokorili jetih vladyk: golod - neftjanoj pishhej, ljubov' - rozovymi biletami. Vse v jetom gorode racional'no i matematicheski tochno, mnozhestvo domov ogranicheno Zelenoj stenoj ot haosa okruzhajushhego irracional'nogo mira, a sami doma - matricy iz stekla, gde kazhdyj jelement, kazhdyj nomer, na vidu v svoej jachejke. Vse unificirovano - odezhda i zhil'e, postupki, mysli i chuvstva. V gosudarstve, idejno osnovannom na neogranichennom povyshenii jekonomicheskoj jeffektivnosti, kul'te nauchnogo znanija i otricanii fantazii, pravit izbiraemyj na bezal'ternativnoj osnove Blagodetel', edinolichno reshajushhij sud'bu nomerov. U nomerov net sobstvennyh celej, net sem'i, net prochnyh svjazej, net dazhe ljubvi... No mozhno li polnost'ju vytravit' iz cheloveka zhazhdu svobody, poka on ostaetsja chelovekom? Konec knigi... idealen. Delo v tom, chto na protjazhenii romana mashinochelovek D-503, postepenno stanovitsja nastojashhim, chuvstvujushhim, jemocional'nym chelovekom, takim obrazom - v centre romana dramatizm preobrazovanija racional'noj lichnosti v irracional'nuju, normal'nuju dlja nas s vami. No Zamjatin delaet sledujushhij shag, chtoby pokazat' ves' uzhas tvorjashhegosja on odnim roscherkom pera, prevrashhaet jetogo sformirovavshegosja, zhivogo cheloveka obratno v mashinu, sposobnuju holodno, dazhe s nekotorym udovol'stviem opisyvat', kak pytajut i ubivajut teh, kogo on ljubil. Kstati, o pobede revoljucionerov v knige i rechi net, poskol'ku gorozhane uspeshno soprotivljajutsja atakam ljudej iz-za steny, i mozhno predpolozhit', chto v Gorode vse ostanetsja tak, kak bylo. Odnako, roman i ne pronizan bezyshodnost'ju: zhenshhina glavnogo geroja s ego rebenkom zhivut gde-to snaruzhi, za Stenoj i, navernoe, schastlivy.

My - roman-antiutopija Evgenija Zamjatina s jelementami satiry (1920). Dejstvie razvorachivaetsja priblizitel'no v tridcat' vtorom veke. Jetot roman opisyvaet obshhestvo zhjostkogo totalitarnogo kontrolja nad lichnost'ju (imena i familii zameneny bukvami i nomerami, gosudarstvo kontroliruet dazhe intimnuju zhizn'), idejno osnovannoe na tejlorizme, scientizme i otricanii fantazii, upravljaemoe izbiraemym na bezal'ternativnoj osnove Blagodetelem. Dlja starshego shkol'nogo vozrasta.

V dannyj sbornik voshli naibolee izvestnye povesti i rasskazy Zamjatina. Sredi nih pervaja i prinesshaja avtoru ogromnyj uspeh povest' Uezdnoe, politicheskaja voennaja satira Na kulichikah, avtobiograficheskij rasskaz Tri dnja, povest'-fars Alatyr', ironicheskie, satiricheskie povesti, vysmeivajushhie kommercheskij duh anglijskogo obshhestva, Ostrovitjane i Lovec chelovekov, a takzhe istoricheskaja povest' Bich Bozhij, gde Evgenij Zamjatin jarko, uvlekatel'no opisyvaet prikljuchenija junogo Atilly (V vek), budushhego legendarnogo predvoditelja gunnov i velikogo zavoevatelja, prozvannogo Bichem Bozhiim.

V knigu zamechatel'nogo russkogo pisatelja Evgenija Zamjatina voshli vsemirno izvestnyj roman My, povest' Uezdnoe, anglijskie proizvedenija Ostrovitjane i Lovec chelovekov, a takzhe izbrannye rasskazy. Dlja starshego shkol'nogo vozrasta.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents. This volume contains a selection of his idiosyncratic short tales.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents. This volume contains a selection of his idiosyncratic short tales.

Although he is best known for his science fiction, Soviet author Yevgeny Zamyatin also produced numerous plays during his lifetime. The Fires of Saint Dominic is arguably his most famous - set in 16th Century Seville it offers a fascinating insight onto the true range of a master craftsman.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents. This volume contains three of his earliest works of short fiction: Mamai, The Cave, Tales for Big Kids, A Story about the Most Important Thing

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents. This volume contains three of his earliest works of short fiction: A Provincial Tale, A Godforsaken Place and The Islanders.

D-503 is the Builder of the Integral, the United State¿s first spaceship. A life of calculations and equations in the United State leaves little room for emotional expression outside of the pink slips that give one private time with another Number. The façade however starts to crack when I-330, a mysterious she-Number with a penchant for the Ancients, enters the picture.We, Yevgeny Zamyatin¿s fourth novel, was written in 1920¿21, but remained unpublished until its English release in 1924 due to conditions in the Soviet Union at the time (it was eventually published there in 1988). Its dystopian future setting predates Orwell¿s 1984 and Huxley¿s Brave New World, and it¿s now considered a founding member of the genre. It has been translated into English and other languages many times; presented here is the original 1924 translation by Gregory Zilboorg.

We is a dystopian novel written by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Originally drafted in Russian, the book could be published only abroad. It was translated into English in 1924. Even as the book won a wide readership overseas, the author?s satiric depiction led to his banishment under Joseph Stalin?s regime in the then USSR. The book?s depiction of life under a totalitarian state influenced the other novels of the 20th century. Like Aldous Huxley?s Brave New World and George Orwell?s Nineteen Eighty-four, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to be not perfect but inhuman. Orwell claimed that Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied this.The novel is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State which assists mass surveillance. Here life is scientifically managed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by reason as the primary justification for the construct of the society. By way of formulae and equations outlined by the One State, the individual?s behaviour is based on logic.

Originally written in Russian in 1920 and first published in English in 1924, "We" is the dystopian novel by Russian science-fiction writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. "We" takes place hundreds of years into a bleak future, where the citizens live under the total control and surveillance of a police state, called One State. The country is made almost entirely out of glass, which makes it easier for the government to watch every move of its citizens. One State manages all aspects of the society with a rigid, scientific discipline where art and passion are outlawed. Citizens are expected to march in step, wear the prescribed uniforms, and are only able to refer to each other by their assigned numbers, rather than names. The main character is D-503, a mathematician who lives willingly under One State's strict rules until he meets and falls in love with I-330, a rebel who lives her life with the creativity and lust prohibited and feared by One State. "We" is widely viewed as the forerunner to such dystopian classics as "Brave New World" and "1984" and continues to be a fascinating and vivid work of science fiction and social commentary. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

The forerunner of such canonical works as 1984 and Brave New World, We is as urgent and relevant today as it was one hundred years ago. The edition includes E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops."

2020 Reprint of the 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This edition reprints the first English Language Edition translated by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 and published by E. P. Dutton in New York. Contains a new introduction by Peter Rudy and a preface by Marc Slonim. The novel describes a world of ostensible harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied it.Along with Jack London's The Iron Heel, We is generally considered to be the grandfather of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre. It takes the modern industrial society to an extreme conclusion, depicting a state that believes that free will is the cause of unhappiness, and that citizens' lives should be controlled with mathematical precision based on the system of industrial efficiency created by Frederick Winslow Taylor. The Soviet attempt at implementing Taylorism, led by Aleksei Gastev, may have influenced Zamyatin's portrayal of the One State. It remains a classic nearly one hundred years after publication.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's page-turningscience fictionadventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism,Weis the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was at the beginning of the twentieth.In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceshipIntegral,that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.One number, D-503, chief architect of theIntegral,decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- ofinnerspace...and that disease the ancients called the soul.

Set in a future under a unified totalitarian state, in a society ruled by conformity and where humans are identified by their assigned number, spaceship engineer D-503 must face his beliefs about the One Party head-on in this page-turning adventure.