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1 February 1884–10 March 1937
Also known as Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami͡atin, Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zamĭatin, Evgeniĭ Zamiatin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Zamyatin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zamĭ͡atin, Evgenii Zamyatin, Yevgeny Zamiatin, Evgenii Zamiatin, Eugene Zamiatin, Eugenii Zamiatin, Evgueni Ivánovich Zamiátin, Yevgeni Zamiatin, Yevgueny Zamiatin, Evgueniï Ivanovich Zamiatin, Jevgenij Zamiatin, Zamyatin, Евге́ний Замя́тин, Jevgeni Zamjatin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Yevgueni Zamiatin, Evgueni Zamiátin, Yevgeny Yevgeny Zamyatin, Eugene Zamyatin, Yevgeni Zamyatin, E. Zamyatin, Yeugeni ZAMYATIN, Evgeny Zamyatin, Yevgeniy İvanoviç Zamyatin, Yevgeniy Ivanoviç Zamyatin, Yevgeni Ivanovic Zamyatin, Eugenii Ivanovich Zamyatin, Yevgen Zamyatin, Y. Zamyatin, Zamyatin E.I., Е.И.Замятин, Евгений Замятин, yevgeny zamyatin, Evgeniy Zamiatin, Evgeni Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich Zami Łatin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zam|i|atin, Eugeniĭ Ivanovich Zam|i|atin, Evgeniµi Ivanovich Zamdi8atin, Evgueni Ivánovich Zamiatin, Evgueni Ivanovitch Zamiatine, Evgueni Zamiatine, Evgenij Zamjátin, Evgueni ZAMIATINE, Evgheni Zamiatin, Evgueni Zamiatin
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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The book that inspired 1984, Anthem and Brave New World. The plot, on paper, is certainly interesting and the book achieves what it sets out to do, a critique of relinquishing individuality to the collective, but honestly? It's just not very engaging. On a su…
You can get the background information for this book on Wikipedia, it's interesting-ish. The TL;DR : this is a satire that went on to inspire the world of 1984 (and probably Brave New World but Huxley won't tell you that) about a society where scientific mana…
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