Russian author (1884–1937)
He wrote the blueprint for every modern dystopia — a 1921 novel so dangerous the Soviets banned it before Orwell ever picked up a pen. The Bolshevik who turned his pen on the Revolution became the first writer the Party couldn't silence or break.
The son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin abandoned Christianity early and joined the Bolsheviks, enduring arrest, beatings, imprisonment, and exile under the Tsar. The October Revolution brought no relief: he found the All-Union Communist Party's enforced conformity and rising totalitarianism just as suffocating. In 1921 he published We, a dystopian science fiction novel set in a futuristic police state that became the first work banned by Soviet censorship. Zamyatin smuggled it West; the Party and Union of Soviet Writers mounted a campaign of defamation and blacklisting so total he peti…
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True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.
I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if she had worn nothing.
It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth.
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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