Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)
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Zamyatin studied at the Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg and became a professional naval engineer. His first story appeared in 1908, and he became serious about writing in 1913, when his short novel A Provincial Tale (1913) was favorably received. He became part of the neorealist group, visa mer which included Remizov and Prishvin. During World War I, he supervised the construction of icebreakers in England for the Russian government. After his return home, he published two satiric works about English life, "The Islanders" (1918) and "The Fisher of Men" (1922). During the civil war and the early 1920s, Zamyatin published theoretical essays as well as fiction. He played a central role in many cultural activities---as an editor, organizer, and teacher of literary technique---and had an important influence on younger writers, such as Olesha and Ivanov. Zamyatin's prose after the Revolution involved extensive use of ellipses, color symbolism, and elaborate chains of imagery. It is exemplified in such well-known stories as "Mamai" (1921) and "The Cage" (1922). His best-known work is the novel We (1924), a satiric, futuristic tale of a dystopia that was a plausible extrapolation from early twentieth-century social and political trends. The book, which directly influenced George Orwell's (see Vol. 1) 1984, 1984, was published abroad in several translations during the 1920s. In 1927 a shortened Russian version appeared in Prague, and the violent press campaign that followed led to Zamyatin's resignation from a writers' organization and, eventually, to his direct appeal to Stalin for permission to leave the Soviet Union. This being granted in 1931, Zamyatin settled in Paris, where he continued to work until his death. Until glasnost he was unpublished and virtually unknown in Russia. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tecnica della prosa 5 exemplar
ICS 4 exemplar
The Cave 3 exemplar
Xis e outras histórias (Portuguese Edition) 2 exemplar
Navala Apelor 2 exemplar
A Provincial Tale, A Godforsaken Hole and The Islanders: Uezdnoe, Na kulichkakh i Ostrovitiane (Russian Edition) (2016) 2 exemplar
Черно слънце 2 exemplar
WE; THE IRON HEEL; THE AIR TRUST: A Dystopian Trilogy (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 2500) (2014) 2 exemplar
Relatos satìricos 1 exemplar
Povesti i rasskazy 1 exemplar
The Miracle Of Ash Wednesday 1 exemplar
Nós 1 exemplar
Sobranie sochineniy v 4-h tomah 1 exemplar
Spotkanie 1 exemplar
Xis e outras histórias (Portuguese Edition) 1 exemplar
The Dragon (in Worlds Apart - LEVITSKY) 1 exemplar
Selected Short Stories: Mamai, The Cave, Tales for Big Kids, A Story about the Most Important Thing (Russian Edition) (2017) 1 exemplar
Racconti inglesi 1 exemplar
Erzählungen 1917-1928 1 exemplar
Frühe Erzählungen 1 exemplar
Сказки 1 exemplar
God 1 exemplar
Избранное 1 exemplar
Wie der Mönch Erasmus geheilet ward. Russ. /Dt. Mit dem Essay "Begegnungen mit B. M. Kustodijew" (1922) 1 exemplar
Ausgewählte Werke : in vier Bänden 1 exemplar
Нечестивые рассказы 1 exemplar
The Cave 1 exemplar
Kristali i snoviđenja 1 exemplar
My : Romany, povesti, rasskazy, skazki 1 exemplar
О дивный новый мир 1 exemplar
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Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 96 exemplar
Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : Science-fiction soviétique (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
7 Novel Dystopian Collection — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Zamjatin, Jevgeni
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- Zamyatin, Evgenii
Zamyatin, Evgenii Ivanovich
Zamiatin, Eugene Ivanovich - Födelsedag
- 1884-02-01
- Avled
- 1937-03-10
- Begravningsplats
- Cimetière Parisien de Thiais, France
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Rusland
- Födelseort
- Lebedyen, Tambov, Russia
- Dödsort
- Parijs, Frankrijk
- Bostadsorter
- St. Petersburg, Russia
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK - Utbildning
- St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute
- Yrken
- novelist
journalist
teacher
engineer - Organisationer
- Serapion Brothers
Social-Democratic Party
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We by Zamiatin i Fans of Russian authors (augusti 2011)
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- 8,918
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- #2,696
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- Recensioner
- 220
- ISBN
- 298
- Språk
- 24
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- 32
The philosophy of the One State and its Benefactor is that happiness can only be achieved by absolute unanimity as though each individual is a cell of one body. The main character D 503 is chief builder of a rocket called the Integral, through which the Benefactor aims to spread his version of happiness to other planets, as the newspaper says: "YOU ARE CONFRONTING UNKNOWN CREATURES ON ALIEN PLANETS, WHO MAY STILL BE LIVING IN THE SAVAGE STATE OF FREEDOM, AND SUBJUGATING THEM TO THE BENEFICIAL YOKE OF REASON. IF THEY WON’T UNDERSTAND THAT WE BRING THEM MATHEMATICALLY INFALLIBLE HAPPINESS, IT WILL BE OUR DUTY TO FORCE THEM TO BE HAPPY. BUT BEFORE RESORTING TO ARMS, WE WILL EMPLOY THE WORD".
Eventually, the One State decides the only way to true uniform "happiness" is through a medical operation to excise the imagination from human brains, which seems to actually lead to the creation of machine conglomerations of people - though these chapters are very unclear and I found myself rather confused at what was going on for a sizable chunk of the book, which is why, despite its powerful overall message about the dangers of mindless collectivism, I don't think it is anywhere near as effective as a dystopian novel as is Orwell's 1984.… (mer)