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We / Yevgeny Zamyatin ; translated by Mirra Ginsburg.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Zamiatin, E.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937.
- Standardized Title:
- My. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Totalitarianism--Fiction.
- Totalitarianism.
- Dystopias.
- Group identity.
- Group identity--Fiction.
- Dystopias--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 232 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Avon, 1983.
- Summary:
- In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul. A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely [today] ... as it was at the beginning [of the twentieth century].
- Notes:
- Translation of: My.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "A Bard book."
- Cover art: Harold Siegel.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy is eleventh printing, undated. Has some underlining of text.
- ISBN:
- 0380633132
- 9780380633135
- OCLC:
- 10279652
- Publisher Number:
- 63313 Avon Books
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