We is a 1921 novel written by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It is set in a future, urban society that regulates nearly every aspect of its citizens' lives including their names, which are a series of letters and numbers. The novel itself is D-503's journal. It chronicles his struggle to be a dutiful citizen while unexpectedly getting caught up in a revolutionary movement, during which he learns he has a soul and experiences love. Ultimately, however, he is called before the government to explain his actions and face his punishment.
Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin lived in the first two, but participated in all three, periods of twentieth-century Russian literature and was out of step in each. In the pre-Soviet period, known as the Si...
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Evgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin