{"product_id":"we-penguin-twentieth-century-classics","title":"We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's \u003cem\u003e1984 \u003c\/em\u003eand foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e journalist Masha Gessen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin's \u003cem\u003eWe \u003c\/em\u003eis a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the twenty-sixth century AD, \u003cem\u003eWe \u003c\/em\u003eis the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's \u003cem\u003e1984 \u003c\/em\u003eand Aldous Huxley's \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) was a naval architect and writer. He wrote short stories, plays, and essays, but his masterpiece is \u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e, written in 1920–21 and soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world, yet it first appeared in Russia only in 1988. It is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-utopia; a great prose poem on the fate that might befall all of us if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. George Orwell, the author of \u003cem\u003e1984\u003c\/em\u003e, acknowledged his debt to Zamyatin. The other great English dystopia of our time, Aldous Huxley’s \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e, was evidently written out of the same impulse, though without direct knowledge of Zamyatin’s \u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Translator and the Contributor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClarence Brown (translator\/introducer; 1929–2015) was the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, which contains his translation of Zamyatin's short story \"The Cave.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMasha Gessen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (foreword) is the author of more than 10 books, including the National Book Award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. A staff writer at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47419756839069,"sku":"9780140185850","price":79.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9780140185850.jpg?v=1763519015","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/we-penguin-twentieth-century-classics","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}