We (novel)

We
	First edition of the novel (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924)
Author	Yevgeny Zamyatin
Original title	Мы
Translator	Various (list)
Cover artist	George Petrusov, Caricature of Aleksander Rodchenko (1933–1934)
Language	Russian
Genre	Dystopian novel, science fiction
Publisher	E. P. Dutton
Publication place	Soviet Russia / United States
Published in English	1924
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	226 pages; 62,579 words
ISBN	0-14-018585-2
OCLC	27105637
Dewey Decimal	891.73/42 20
LC Class	PG3476.Z34 M913 1993

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (often anglicised as Eugene Zamiatin) that was written in 1920–1921.^[1] It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York, with the original Russian text first published in 1952. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state that is rebelled against by the protagonist, D-503 (Russian: Д-503). It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. George Orwell said that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We,^[2] although Huxley denied this. Orwell's own Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) was also inspired by We.^[3]

^ Brown, p. xi, citing Shane, gives 1921. Russell, p. 3, dates the first draft to 1919.
^ Orwell, George (4 January 1946). "Review of WE by E. I. Zamyatin". Tribune. London – via Orwell.ru.
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[1] Brown, p. xi, citing Shane, gives 1921. Russell, p. 3, dates the first draft to 1919.

[2] Orwell, George (4 January 1946). "Review of WE by E. I. Zamyatin". Tribune. London – via Orwell.ru.

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