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We (novel)
''We'' () is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921.〔Brown, p. xi, citing Shane, gives 1921. Russell, p. 3, dates the first draft to 1919.〕 The novel was first published in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York in an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg.
== Setting ==
''We'' is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State,〔The Ginsburg and Randall translations use the phrasing "One State". Guerney uses "The One State"—each word is capitalized. Brown uses the single word "OneState", which he calls "ugly" (p. xxv). Zilboorg uses "United State".
All of these are translations of the phrase ''Yedinoye Gosudarstvo'' (Russian: Единое Государство).〕 an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which allows the secret police/spies to inform on and supervise the public more easily. The structure of the state is analogous to the prison design concept developed by Jeremy Bentham commonly referred to as the Panopticon. Furthermore, life is organized to promote maximum productive efficiency along the lines of the system advocated by the hugely influential F. W. Taylor. People march in step with each other and wear identical clothing. There is no way of referring to people save by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society.〔George Orwell by Harold Bloom pg 54 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub ISBN 978-0791094280〕〔Zamyatin's We: A Collection of Critical Essays by Gary Kern pgs 124, 150 Publisher: Ardis ISBN 978-0882338040〕 The individual's behaviour is based on logic by way of formulas and equations outlined by the One State.〔The Literary Underground: Writers and the Totalitarian Experience, 1900–1950 pgs 89–91 By John Hoyles Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition (June 15, 1991) ISBN 978-0-312-06183-8 ()〕
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