Wat we nu lezen… By Thdress.com

Wat we nu lezen…

Of de Nederlandse vertaling (alleen nog antiquarisch verkrijgbaaar).

Zamyatin’s We is one of the best known Russian novels of the twentieth century. It is, at the same time, an anti-Utopia, a work of futuristic science fiction and a dire warning of the dangers of the regimented, totalitarian state. Completed in 1920, it was not published in Russia until 1988, for reasons of political censorship.  The novel of  Zamyatin anticipates Huxley’s Brave New World and was an acknowledged influence on Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. It also represents the highest achievement of Zamyatin’s expericmental methods of ‘neo-realism’.