Yevgeny Zamyatin: We. The Scourge of God. Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Fairy Tales

A prose writer and essayist, a discoverer of the "provincial" world, the world of the Russian North, the world of "islanders," and other terrestrial "little worlds." Author of the novel "We"—the first dystopia of the 20th century, which has been translated into many languages, but was published in the writer's homeland only in 1988, several decades after it was written. Yevgeny Zamyatin became the founder of an entire literary movement, not only in Russia but also in European literature.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopia "We" has become a world classic of the genre. The fantastic world of the future turns out to be frighteningly real and predictable. This novel, according to Zamyatin, is "a signal about the danger threatening man, humanity, from the hypertrophied power of machines and the power of the state—it doesn't matter which one." The novel "The Scourge of God" immerses us in the European history of the 5th century, the era of the "Great Migration." Its plot is built on the confrontation between West and East, the Roman Empire and Great Scythia, whose barbarian peoples live under the rule of Hunnic leaders and are only just beginning their history. The writer depicts Rome before the fall of the empire (476 AD), showing the clash between ossified tradition and vital force in the characters of the Romans and the "Huns."

Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Pages: 768 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 218x154x38 mm

Dimensions: 218x154x38 mm

Series: Russian Literature. Big Books