We

Name: We
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Yevgeny Zamyatin(Autor*in)

Canongate Canons (Verlag)

Erschienen am 12. November 2020

304 Seiten

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Beschreibung

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.

A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, WE is a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. In this brilliant new translation, it is both a warning and a hope for a better world.

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The best single work of science fiction yet written -- URSULA K. LE GUIN Two of the most iconic novels in the English language - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell - owe an enormous debt to Zamyatin. We is the ur-text of science-fiction dystopias . . . the product of a powerful imagination * * Wall Street Journal * * The prototype . . . Zamyatin is a major artist * * New York Times * * This new edition, which contains Orwell's review as well as an introduction by Margaret Atwood, an afterword by Ursula Le Guin and an absorbing comment by the translator Bela Shayevich, who grew up in the former Soviet Union, will be the definitive version in English for the foreseeable future * * New Statesman * * [A] fine new translation . . . In a market of competing editions . . . Shayevich's stands out, and for very good reason . . . truly excellent . . . Shayevich's [translation] retains the novel's bold, jagged, elemental energy [and] remains true to the spirit of the work in a way that the author himself would have applauded * * Times Literary Supplement * * A seminal dystopian classic . . . This timely and thoughtful edition is a fitting tribute to book of lasting influence * * Irish Times * * It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle and cannot put back again -- GEORGE ORWELL

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Intro
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
WE Logs:
1. Announcement. The Wisest Line. An Epic.
2. Ballet. Quadratic Harmony. X.
3. Jacket. Wall. The Table of Hours.
4. The Savage and the Barometer. Epilepsy. If only.
5. A Square. The Masters of the World. A Pleasant and Useful Function.
6. An Incident. That Damned 'Clear'. Twenty-four Hours.
7. An Eyelash. Taylor. Henbane and Lilies of the Valley.
8. An Irrational Root. R-13. The Triangle.
9. Liturgy. Iambs and Trochees. The Iron Hand.
10. A Letter. Membrane. My Hairy Self.
11. No, I Can't, No Brief This Time.
12. Limited Infinities. An Angel. Thoughts About Poetry.
13. Fog. You. A Completely Improbable Incident.
14. 'Mine'. Mustn't. The Cold Floor.
15. The Bell. The Mirroring Sea. I Will Burn Eternally.
16. Yellow. Two-Dimensional Shadow. Incurable Soul.
17. Through The Glass. I Died. Hallways.
18. A Jungle of Logic. Wounds and Bandages. Never Again.
19. An Infinitesimal of the Third Order. Under the Brow. Over the Balustrade.
20. Discharge. What an Idea is Made Of. Zero Cliff.
21. My Duty as an Author. Swollen Ice. The Most Difficult Love.
22. Frozen Waves. Everything Is Perfected. I Am A Microbe.
23. Flowers. Dissolving Crystal. As Long As.
24. Function Limits. Easter. Cross It All Out.
25. The Descent from the Heavens. The Greatest Catastrophe in History. The End of Everything Known.
26. The World Exists. A Rash. 41°.
27. No Brief - It's Impossible.
28. Both of Them. Entropy and Energy. An Opaque Part of the Body.
29. Face Threads. Shoots. Unnatural Compression.
30. The Final Number. Galileo's Mistake. Wouldn't It Be Better?
31. The Great Operation. I Forgave Everything. Crashing Trains.
32. I Don't Believe It. Tractors. A Sliver of Humanity.
33. (No Summary, In a Hurry, the Last Thing.)
34. Freedmen. A Sunny Night. Radio Valkyrie.
35. In a Hoop. Carrot. Murder.
36. Blank Pages. The Christian God. About My Mother.
37. Infusoria. Doomsday. Her Room.
38. (Oh, I don't know. Maybe the Entire Thing Is Just This: A Discarded Cigarette.)
39. The End.
40. The Facts. The Bell. I Am Certain.
Freedom & Happiness by George Orwell
The Stalin in the Soul by Ursula K. Le Guin
Translator's Note by Bela Shayevich

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