We
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We
9.99 €
A conveniently formatted edition. Hardcover. Colored endpapers. White paper, clear font. Black and white illustrations.
"True literature can only exist where it is created not by dutiful and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics." Did Yevgeny Zamyatin consider himself a skeptic or a dreamer? We'll likely never know. One thing is certain: his dystopian novel "We"—the first dystopia of the 20th century—is true literature.
This narrative about a United Welfare State was immediately banned by "dutiful and trustworthy officials." But, having burst into the world in translations first into English and Czech, and then into Finnish and Italian, "We" captivated readers. Recognized world classics such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Vladimir Nabokov created their works under his influence.
Andrey Simanchuk's black-and-white drawings fit perfectly into the strange, uneven rhythm of the diary entries. The confident pressure of rigid linear logic is suddenly interrupted by jagged, tapering strokes of feeling and emotion, only to fall upon the page in the finale like a thick, cross-shaped shadow of an unfulfilled paradise.
"True literature can only exist where it is created not by dutiful and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics." Did Yevgeny Zamyatin consider himself a skeptic or a dreamer? We'll likely never know. One thing is certain: his dystopian novel "We"—the first dystopia of the 20th century—is true literature.
This narrative about a United Welfare State was immediately banned by "dutiful and trustworthy officials." But, having burst into the world in translations first into English and Czech, and then into Finnish and Italian, "We" captivated readers. Recognized world classics such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Vladimir Nabokov created their works under his influence.
Andrey Simanchuk's black-and-white drawings fit perfectly into the strange, uneven rhythm of the diary entries. The confident pressure of rigid linear logic is suddenly interrupted by jagged, tapering strokes of feeling and emotion, only to fall upon the page in the finale like a thick, cross-shaped shadow of an unfulfilled paradise.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series MP. The Big Books of The Little Prince