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Is worth knowing that Orwell was standing in the shadow of Zamyatin's novel 'We' (A man so revolutionary, he managed to be exiled by both the Tsars and by Stali
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Is worth knowing that Orwell was standing in the shadow of Zamyatin's novel 'We' (A man so revolutionary, he managed to be exiled by both the Tsars and by Stalin), when he wrote '1984'.
http://orwell.ru/people/zamyatin/zei_en http://orwell.ru/people/zamyatin/zei_en
It is in many ways a much better book, and worth reading for many reasons, one of the best of them being that Stalin banned it upon publication, the ban not being lifted till 1988.
Here it is - https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/We_2.pdf https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/We_2.pdf
- maxxxxx 7y agoThe world in We feels a little more like Brave New World to me but I agree that it’s a fun book.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoIt had never occured to me to call it a fun book. Brilliant, without question. But not fun. There are definitely some excellent jokes in it, but they are more deeply sardonic rather than fun.