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A loyal engineer in a glass-walled future state records his orderly life until love and doubt unsettle his total system.
First published 1959
Science FictionClassics
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In a remote future society called OneState, people are identified by numbers and live under rigid schedules, constant surveillance, and strict rules governing work, movement, and intimacy. The state presents its order as happiness, while the natural world beyond the wall is treated as dangerous and primitive.
D-503, a mathematician-engineer building a spaceship meant to spread OneState’s ideals beyond Earth, begins writing journal entries about the perfection of his world. That certainty starts to break when he meets I-330, a woman tied to resistance and to forbidden experiences that challenge his beliefs.
As D-503 becomes increasingly unsettled, his inner life changes along with the narrative itself. His rational worldview gives way to confusion, obsession, and fear, while the pressure between collective order and individual feeling drives the story toward revolt, repression, and uncertainty.
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- Authors
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- First published
- 1959
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Russia, Russian Literature, 20th Century
- Subjects
- Literature: Texts · Untranslated Fiction - General · Literature - Classics / Criticism · Literary Criticism · Russian & Former Soviet Union · Fiction, science fiction, general · Fiction, dystopian · Classic Literature · Fiction · Science Fiction · Political fiction · Dystopias · Russian fiction · Russian prose · totalitarianism · Russian satire · dystopia · Russian language materials · Authoritarianism · Modern fiction · Russian Novel And Short Story · Literary · Fiction / Literary · Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) · Corrupt practices · Political science · Electronic surveillance · Criticism and interpretation · Fiction, general · Soviet union, fiction · Biography · My (Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich) · Science fiction, Russian · Russian Science fiction · Group identity · Pg3476.z34 m913 1983 · Russian fiction--20th century · Satire, russian · Totalitarianism and literature · Pg3476.z34 m913 2006 · 891.73/42 · Fiction, romance, general · Translations into English · Utopias · Dystopias - Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780140185850
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