Technique of artistic prose. Lectures

The lectures read by Evgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) to young Soviet writers and poets almost immediately after the revolution, were
For the first time, only 70 years later, at the sunset of the Soviet Union. In them, the author of the Antiutopia novel “We” appears from a new side:
as a thin stylist with a sharp literary instinct, who saw the text through and through to the very inside. The reporting manner is combined here
with philosophical conclusions explaining the plot, plot, tongue, imagery, rhythm and style of a work of art. About the literature
the turning point, including the one at the beginning of the last century, the essay I am afraid, and a number of stories mentioned in the lectures. Familiar
a rather narrow reader circle, they open a little different Zamyatin - a writer who is closely looking deep into an ordinary person
and the following independent laws of literary skill