We – Zamjatin Jevgenij

Alma Books Ltd. 2017 240 anglické Jevgenij Zamjatin měkká vazba

Autor : Yevgeny Zamyatin, Evgenij Samjatin, Popis : We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin s 1921 seminal novel - here presented in Hugh Aplin s crisp translation - is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefi guration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : We, Jazyk : Angličtina,

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