![]() Of writing Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut said “I cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. Brave New World, Anthem, 1984, and Player Piano all owe an enduring debt to We. A fast paced adventure novel with a message that reverberated down through history. It is time for someone to strike a blow for individuality and freedom. But resentment and anger seethe just beneath the surface of the citizenry’s polite veneer. Citizens are given numbers rather than names to discourage individuality. Cities are made of glass to aid the government’s surveillance of its people. ![]() But the price is a life without passion, creativity, or adventure. Every citizen has all of their needs completely taken care of. We is set in the twenty six century where a totalitarian government rules the world. ![]() ![]() As a result of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s treatment over the novel he left Russia. Written in 1921 by the Russian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin, this story of the thirtieth century is set in the One State, a society where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. It would not see publication in Russia until 1988. ![]() We is an earth shattering dystopian novel that ruffled the feathers of the ruling elite of Russia when it was smuggled out of the country and published in English in 1924. ![]()
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