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Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Original publication
1924
Pages
319
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Science Fiction, Philosophy
Translated from
Russian

Book summary

In the One State, ringed by a wall of glass, people carry numbers and live by a fixed timetable in transparent flats. D-503, engineer of the spaceship Integral, keeps a journal meant for the peoples he will help conquer, until he meets I-330, who pulls him outside the rules. What he feels then has no name in his language. The novel explores freedom, happiness imposed from above, and what is left of a person when everything is shared. Zamyatin gives the modern dystopia one of its first forms.

The plot

In a city of glass, an engineer begins to dream. D‑503 is the engineer building the Integral, a spaceship made of glass. It is meant to travel to other planets and bring happiness to their peoples.

The world of the book

A city where every second is regulated. The novel is set in the distant future. For a very long time, no one has crossed the Green Wall that surrounds the city. The inhabitants no longer have names: each one bears a…

The author

Yevgeny Zamyatin. Yevgeny Zamyatin is born in a small town in Russia. He becomes an engineer and designs ships. In 1916, he goes to England, to Newcastle, to oversee the building of icebreakers, large ships that open a…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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