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 Silver Age, he worked as an engineer, wrote satires,...

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884–1937), who was born in Lebedyan, Tamov district, Russia on February 1, is best known for having written We (1920), the archetypal anti-utopian novel. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest and a mother who had...

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin[1] (Russian: Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, IPA: [jɪvˈgʲenʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ zɐˈmʲætʲɪn]) (February 1, 1884 – March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his 1921 novel We, a...

Yevgeny Zamyatin We. Modern Library, 240 pages, $12.95 Yevgeny Zamyatin was first imprisoned in 1906 in Czarist Russia, only to find himself again in the same hallway of the same prison eighteen years later, this time--with a twist!--at the hands of the...

'IT IS WITH REGRET that I see, instead of an orderly and strict mathematical epic poem in honor of the One State-I see some kind of fantastic adventure novel emerging from me." So laments D-503, mathematician and rocket designer, halfway through Russian writer Yevgeny...