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"We" Evgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) opens a parade of great anti-utopias of the 20th century. A novel, invariably included in the lists of the best and most important fantastic books, was created at a time when it seemed possible to build a new society on a new basis, and the talent of the writer and the gift of the Prophet were required to see the possible contours of this coming world. And if the first readers of the novel saw in it an evil and dangerous caricature of the socialist state, today it is noteworthy that in the future, according to Zamyamatin, mathematically verified rationality, machine and digit are dominated. The followers of the writer will develop the ideas laid down in his novel. Huxley will show the possibility of manipulating a person at a biological level, Orwell is an ideological dictate carried out using media technologies, Bradbury is a world where the very existence of culture will be under threat. And yet it is in the novel "We" Zamyatin, the Witness and Participant of grandiose Social Shocks, the topic that has become one of the key in the history of the 20th century sounds stronger and louder: about the possibility of building a utopian society and about the ability of a person to preserve himself in this society, his personality . This book is surprisingly consonant with our twenty -first century.
The accompanying article by Sergey Shikarev
Sergey Aleksandrovich Shikarev (born 1980) - critic, permanent author of the magazines "New World" and "if". Laureate of several literary awards, including a "whipping critic" and "double star" (in the nomination "Literary and Critical Research") The finalist of the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Prize ("ABS-Premium") The author of the book of articles and reviews "13" (M., 2015)
The accompanying article by Sergey Shikarev
Sergey Aleksandrovich Shikarev (born 1980) - critic, permanent author of the magazines "New World" and "if". Laureate of several literary awards, including a "whipping critic" and "double star" (in the nomination "Literary and Critical Research") The finalist of the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Prize ("ABS-Premium") The author of the book of articles and reviews "13" (M., 2015)
Author:
Author:Zamyatin Evgeny Ivanovich
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Checked by time
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00112-131-2
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