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Goodreads summary: The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the cour...
You can see the massive influence this book has had on Russian literature almost as soon as the story opens. It's almost like a Gogol story. Unfortunately, the writing isn't terribly beautiful, though the descriptions of the Caucuses really make me want to go some day.
This was an interesting novel. I would not like to view it as the personification of the worse humanity is capable of. Pechorin does not remind me of the devil, or of a man devoid of any sense of good and evil. He is rather a lost soul, swayign between boredom and depression. He wishes to break the ...
It was really interesting but I'm kinda confused which is why I can't give it a higher rating. I really loved the writing style and D-503 was such an interesting character.
We has left me with general impressions more than with definite ideas - I think I probably need to read it again to get more out of it.The most striking impression is that of the glass buildings and the green glass-filtered twilight in which the numbers of the One State pass their orderly, centrally...
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