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| Author | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
|---|---|
| Original title | Мы |
| Translator | Various (list) |
| Cover artist | George Petrusov, Caricature of Aleksander Rodchenko (1933–1934) |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Dystopian novel, science fiction |
| Publisher | E. P. Dutton |
| Publication place | Soviet Russia / United States |
Published in English | 1924 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 226 pages 62,579 words |
| ISBN | 0-14-018585-2 |
| OCLC | 27105637 |
| 891.73/42 20 | |
| LC Class | PG3476.Z34 M913 1993 |
We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (often anglicised as Eugene Zamiatin) that was written in 1920–1921.[1] It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York, with the original Russian text first published in 1952. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state that is rebelled against by the protagonist, D-503 (Russian: Д-503). It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. George Orwell said that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We,[2] although Huxley denied this. Orwell's own Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) was also inspired by We.[3]