We is considered to be one of the first dystopian novels and the inspiration for later novels in the genre such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldus Huxley's Brave New World . The story takes place in a future totalitarian world where conformity is good and individuality bad. It is written from the perspective of one of the members of this society who sees all he knows and loves falling apart due to others' quest for freedom of thought and action.
This book addresses the perpetual conflict between between independent individualism and mob mentality.
This work, by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin has the distinction of being the first book banned by the Soviet Union.
Chapters
1 Forword 10 min 2 An Announcement, The Wisest of Lines, A Poem 3 min 3 Ballet, Square Harmony, X 10 min 4 A Coat, A Wall, The Tables 9 min 5 The Wild Man with the Barometer, Epilepsy, If 8 min 6 The Square, The Rulers of the World, An Agreeable and Useful Function 6 min 7 An Accident, The Cursed "It's Clear", Twenty-Four Hours 12 min 8 An Eyelash, Taylor, Henbane and Lily of the Valley 11 min 9 An Irrational Root, R-13, The Triangle 10 min 10 Liturgy, Iambus, The Cast-Iron Hand 8 min 11 A Letter, A Membrane, Hairy I 15 min 12 No, I Can't; Let It Be without Headings! 10 min 13 The Delimitation of the Infinite, Angel, Meditations on Poetry 8 min 14 Fog, Thou, A Decidedly Absurd Adventure 11 min 15 "Mine", Impossible, A Cold Floor 5 min 16 The Bell, The Mirror-Like Sea, I am to Burn Eternally 9 min 17 Yellow, A Two-Dimensional Shadow, An Incurable Soul 12 min 18 Through Glass, I Died, The Corridor 12 min 19 Logical Debris, Wounds and Plaster, Never Again 12 min 20 The Infinitesimal of the Third Order, From Under the Forehead: Over the Railing 11 min 21 Discharge, The Material of an Idea, The Zero Rock 6 min 22 The Duty of an Author, The Ice-Swells, The Most Difficult Love 11 min 23 The Benumbed Waves, Everything is Improving, I Am a Microbe 7 min 24 Flowers, The Dissolution of a Crystal, If Only (?) 8 min 25 The Limit of the Function, Easter, To Cross Out Everything 7 min 26 The Descent from Heaven, The Greatest Catastrophe in History, The Known, Is Ended 14 min 27 The World Does Exist, Rash, Forty-One Degrees Centigrade 7 min 28 No Headings, It is Impossible 13 min 29 Both of Them, Entropy and Energy, The Opaque Part of the Body 15 min 30 Threads of the Face, Sprouts, An Unnatural Compresssion 5 min 31 The Last Number, Galileo's Mistake, Would It Not Be Better 7 min 32 The Great Operation, I Forgave Everything, The Collision of Trains 17 min 33 I Do Not Believe, Tractors, A Little Human Splinter 12 min 34 This without a Synopsis, Hastily, the Last 2 min 35 The Forgiven Ones, A Sunny Night, A Radio-Walkyrie 22 min 36 In a Ring, A Carrot, A Murder 13 min 37 Empty Pages, The Christian God, About My Mother 8 min 38 Infusorian, Doomsday, Her Room 8 min 39 I Don't Know What Title, Perhaps the Whole Synopsis May Be Called a Cast-off Cigarette-butt 5 min 40 The End 11 min 41 Facts, The Bell, I am Certain 4 min
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