Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Russian author; born 1884, died 1937.

Best known for his novel "We", a story of dystopian future published in 1921, which influenced at least George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  • Review by George Orwell of "We" by E I Zamyatin  - Offers the text of Orwell's review, written for The Tribune in 1946.
  • Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937)  - Offers a profile and bibliography of the Russian novelist and playwright, whose dystopian novel "We" prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and inspired George Orwell's 1984, but was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Soviet Union.
  • Zamyatin in Newcastle  - An account of the author's time in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (supervising the construction of Russian ice-breakers), which he used as a resource for his novels The Islanders, and A Fisher of Men.
  • Zamyatin, Evgeny Ivanovich  - The author's biographical entry in the Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers.
 
 
 
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