Abstract to the book "We" Zamyatin E. I.: Evgeny Zamyatin's novel "We" (1921) is the first dystopia of the twentieth century, translated into many languages, but published in the writer's homeland only in 1988, several decades after its creation. The hero of the novel "We" — a mathematician and an engineer — lives in a giant city-state, separated by a wall from the outside world. It seems to him that everything here is arranged correctly and reasonably: people have numbers instead of names, wear the same clothes, their lives are strictly regulated. But gradually the hero begins to realize that in this perfectly organized society there is no place for freedom and love. Read more…