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I read Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_ recently, and recommend. It has a more lighthearted style generally but the ending is still fairly devestating. There's just been
by cturner 17y ago
I read Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_ recently, and recommend. It has a more lighthearted style generally but the ending is still fairly devestating. There's just been a new translation released and it hides most of the cultural problems well and is just honest about the one it couldn't (character using a polite version of a pronoun).
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoI feel 1984 is the weakest of the classic distopia triumvirate (We, BNW, 1984). We and BNW are both scarier because they are plausible. Many people read BNW in particular and say "that doesn't seem so bad".
- dangoldin 17y agoCan't forget Fahrenheit 451. I think it's more approachable than We and I think more people have read it. I became a fan of Dystopian Literature after reading that book and have been amassing a collection since.
- dan_the_welder 17y agoWait, are you saying that 1984 is implausible? We actually have newspeak, constant surveillance, the bumbling inept bureaucracy and crumbling infrastructure he predicts. It's a pretty accurate vision as far as I see it and the Department of Homeland Security/CIA/NSA are merely a step removed from the Ministry of Truth. Long live Oceania!
- brown9-2 17y agoI'm curious about this new translation - do you know who it was translated/published by? The most recent edition on Amazon I can find is from 2006, I'm interested in checking out the new translation based on your comments but not sure if this is the same one.
- cturner 17y agoI'm mistaken about this. I confused it with the new translation of Pushkin's _Eugene_Onegin_, now by Stanley Mitchell (2008). My edition of _We_ was published in 1993.