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by Natasha Randall, Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “We”: both have constant surveillance of the individual, though through different means. Both have the protagonist discovering a class in society that is free, but powerless. Both have state control over passion, albeit in rather different ways. But “1984” (the new title) ...
"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it 6 years ago
D-503, a true believer in the authoritarian future he finds himself in, has his faith in the structures of society shaken by love. <-- a quick and dirty recap of We, D-503's diary. The world-building in these older dystopias is very different from today's, but you can draw a straight line from We (t...
Libromancer's Apprentice
Libromancer's Apprentice rated it 6 years ago
Several things drew me to We. Comparison to 1984 is unavoidable, yet it predates it by several decades. A science fiction dystopia written in 1921 Russia that is still being read and discussed today seems like the type of foundation literature I should be familiar with. The book is definitely an i...
It's a Books World
It's a Books World rated it 8 years ago
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...
warren
warren rated it 9 years ago
It's possible that since I neither read nor speak Russian something was lost in the translation.
Calyre
Calyre rated it 10 years ago
Les deux habitants du paradis se virent proposer le choix: le bonheur sans liberté ou la liberté sans bonheur, pas d'autre solution.
philoSophie
philoSophie rated it 10 years ago
i actually feel bad about not having read this dystopian novel that has influenced aldous huxley and george orwell's 1984, however i finally picked it up and i adored each and every page of it.in We, the protagonist D-503, through writing his memoirs, develops a soul. and even more so, that he is no...
shell pebble
shell pebble rated it 10 years ago
We takes the form of the diary of D-503, a mathematical engineer responsible for building the 'Integral', a space craft designed to carry the political dominance of the One State beyond the limits of Earth. His deep loyalty to the State is briefly threatened by an illicit love affair with the enigma...
RoseInCanada
RoseInCanada rated it 11 years ago
This is not an easy read. Like most books written a century ago, there is a lot of descriptiveness that seems to run off in a tangent. It tends to make the story a bit more difficult to follow. This may be in part because it wasn't translated to English as well as it could have been. As I cannot...
I only read when my OCD kicks in
I only read when my OCD kicks in rated it 11 years ago
The father of Dystopia. 1984 and Brave New World never would have been written if not for the ideas that were replicated into those two now classic works of literature.There is no "I" there is only "We"D503 begins to develop a soul. His favorite female companion, I330 is part of a secret freedom mov...
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