– Aldous Huxley ble inspirert av "WE" til å skrive sin "Brave New World". Bøkene har også en del likheter. "WE" handler om en kollektiviserte dystopi, hvor ingeniøren D-503 lever. Hvis du har lest "1984", er det mange likheter i bøkenes oppbygging, men denne boka er ikke så omfavnende og utmattende, på et vis. Mer åpen og fokusert på individet. Hans indre liv viker etterhvert fra kulde og intellekt og presisjon, noe som er høyst ønskelig, til absurdiske hamsunske innfall, drømmer og svermerier, følelser, hvelvinger ... Alt selvsagt for en kvinne. Boka er dertil skrevet i et veldig poetisk, men samtidig lett, språk. Hovedpersonen er sympatisk, dynamisk, du blir interessert i ham. Forholdet mellom de to turtelduene er også tilfredsstillende. Jeg fant deler veldig nytenkende i form og innhold. Morsomt til at den er såpass gammel. Absolutt en bok å anbefale. Fengende å lese, med poetisk, lett form, og ettertenksomt (men ikke for tungt) innhold.
We
«The best single work of science fiction yet written»
Ursula K. Le Guin
'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin
The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia for decades, it is a chilling vision of a world enslaved by technology.
'Zamyatin's parable looked forward to climate change and surveillance culture ... to peer into its future is to see modernity's reflection gazing darkly back' Economist
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'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin
The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia for decades, it is a chilling vision of a world enslaved by technology.
'Zamyatin's parable looked forward to climate change and surveillance culture ... to peer into its future is to see modernity's reflection gazing darkly back' Economist
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780241458747
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 18 x 11 cm
Om forfatteren
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession and writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist government by being a Bolshevik, and an enemy of the Soviet government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative freedom. He wrote short stories, plays and essays, but his masterpiece is We, written in 1920-1921 and soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world.
Clarence Brown was a pioneer of Russian literature studies and translation. His brilliant translation of We was based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.
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«The best single work of science fiction yet written»
Ursula K. Le Guin
«We is a shapely work of the imagination. As the first major anti-utopian fiction it famously stood both the Soviet Union and the Wellsian scientific romance upside down.»
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