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No one ever mentions We http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
by iterationx 16y ago
No one ever mentions We
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
- igravious 16y agoHave read it! Deserves a read. Because it's not by an Anglo-American writer I'd say it gets ignored somewhat. Besides, it's not very famous unless you like dystopian fiction and seek out a lot of it. Also, author's name: Yevgeny Zamyatin is a stonking name.
- zzzmarcus 16y agoWe is great, and remarkably similar to Brave New World. I like the mini-controversy surrounding it, here it is as summarized on Wikipedia: "...in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World as a reaction to H.G. Wells' utopias long before he had heard of We. According to We translator Natasha Randall, Orwell believed that Huxley was lying. Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.""[1] If Huxley hadn't read We he was def. channeling Zamyatin's aura somehow or another. Vonnegut is too hard on himself saying Player Piano was a rip off of Brave New World. It is great in it's own right. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
- akkartik 16y agoAnother book I just finished: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Perfect_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Perfect_Day by the author of Rosemary's Baby.