Kyle Harrison
to-read
We (Zamyatin)
We (Zamyatin)
Why it’s on the list: Written in 1920–21 and banned in the Soviet Union, first published in English in 1924 — the dystopia that Orwell reviewed and that Huxley was accused of borrowing from. A mathematician in the glass-walled One State keeps a journal and discovers he has an interior life.
Where I saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.
Connections
- 1984 — Orwell reviewed this novel and it is generally read as a source for his own.
- Brave New World — the other canonical comparison.
- Dystopia · Utopia — the form.
- Russia — where it was written, and banned.