We: The First Great Dystopian Warning - Couverture souple

Zamyatin, Yevgeny

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798295746079

Editeur : Curated Collection Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is one of the earliest and most influential dystopian novels ever written-a chilling vision of a future where the promise of perfect order has become a total system of control. In the One State, citizens live in glass apartments, move in synchronized ranks, and are identified not by names but by numbers. The Table of Hours dictates work, meals, recreation-even sanctioned intimacy. D-503, an accomplished engineer, believes wholeheartedly in this rational paradise and records his thoughts as he helps construct the Integral, a spacecraft designed to bring the beneficent logic of the One State to other worlds. Yet a chance encounter with the unpredictable I-330 unsettles his carefully balanced mind. As forbidden feelings and private thoughts emerge, D-503's diary shifts from confident certainty to anxious self-examination. What begins as a celebration of collective perfection becomes a record of inner fracture-of imagination awakening in a society built to eliminate it. By turns satirical and philosophical, We explores the costs of conformity, the seductions of certainty, and the fragile boundary between freedom and fear. A cornerstone of modern speculative fiction, it remains essential reading for anyone drawn to classic literature and the origins of the dystopian tradition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Curated Collection Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798295746079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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