We (Translated by Natasha Randall 2006)

✍ Scribed by Yevgeny Zamyatin

• Publisher: Modern Library; Random House
• Year: 1924
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 169 KB
• Edition: Modern Library (2006)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307432866
• ASIN: B0012E3J2O

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 203 pages
Published: 1924
Edition: Modern Library (2006)
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Translation (from Russian) and introduction by: Natasha Randall (2006)
Foreword by: Bruce Sterling (2006)
Original Title: Мы (We)
Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: love. At once satirical and sobering—and now available in a powerful new translation—We is both a rediscovered classic and a work of tremendous relevance to our own times.
The first dystopia ever, it started asking uncomfortable questions about individuals, collectives, revolutions, progress — and the collectives’ rights to individuals’ souls in the name of revolutions and progress.
This edition of We, the mother of all dystopias, is a new, XXI-century literary translation into idiomatic, contemporary American English that goes beyond the customary word-for-word translation. Unlike other currently available English translations, which have taken pains to downplay the politics of the original, this translation, commissioned specially by ENC Press, enhances, emphasizes, and deepens the transcendent relevance of Zamyatin's original take on the way politics affect the human condition, more crucial than ever in today’s political climate, as underscored in the publisher's introduction.