We

Russian

Paperback

First Person

Fiction

222

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Mathematician D-503 is the builder of a spaceship called the Integral, which will be used by the One State to spread their philosophy of collectivism and stamp out individualism on foreign planets. D-503 begins to question the One State after falling in love with I-330 and discovering that he is inflicted with the sicknesses known as a ”soul” and an ”imagination”, both of which he can be cured from if he undergoes the Great Operation, the final step of the One State in turning man into machine by excising his imagination.

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) and Animal Farm were also inspired by We, as are many other contemporary dystopian novels.[3]

Penguin

9780140035100

United Kingdom

1972

1970

1

middlesex, England

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2026-02-16

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