We
by Eugene Zamiatin | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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Hm. Reading the back cover of this book makes me want to keep it, but I'll try not to. I've got too many books I haven't read taking up space.
From the cover:
WE tells the store of the minutely organized United State, where all citizens are not individuals, but only he-Numbers and she-Numbers existing in identical glass apartments with every action regulated by the Table of Hours. It is a community dedicated to the proposition taht freedom and happiness are incompatible; that most men believe their freedom to be more than a fair exchange for a high level of materialistic happiness.
The cover says it was supposed to be the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, and never published in Russia because of official censorship. It's supposed to be a Utopian classic and a landmark in Russian literature.
From the cover:
WE tells the store of the minutely organized United State, where all citizens are not individuals, but only he-Numbers and she-Numbers existing in identical glass apartments with every action regulated by the Table of Hours. It is a community dedicated to the proposition taht freedom and happiness are incompatible; that most men believe their freedom to be more than a fair exchange for a high level of materialistic happiness.
The cover says it was supposed to be the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, and never published in Russia because of official censorship. It's supposed to be a Utopian classic and a landmark in Russian literature.
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