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Soviet Heretic

by Unknown Author

342 pages1974University of Chicago PressISBN 9780226978666

Publication Details

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1974
Pages
342
ISBN
9780226978666

About Unknown Author

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatina, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. Zamyatin is the author of a dystopian novel "Мы" (We) (1921). George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) must be partly derived from We. Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

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