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 prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.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 prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.
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