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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 320 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 245 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Evergreens |
| ISBN-10 | 1847496768 |
| EAN | 9781847496768 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84749676UA |
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in.
Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatins 1921 seminal novel - here presented in Hugh Aplins crisp translation - is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.