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2026-03-21 22:14 UTC
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@GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 2026-03-21 23:01
1984 by George Orwell was strongly inspired by We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin. He was a former Bolshevik who grew disillusioned with authoritarianism, was critiquing the nascent Soviet bureaucracy, the philosophy of Taylorism, and the loss of individual imagination and soul in a collectivist project. He was warning against the trajectory of the revolution. We is a modernist novel. It is fragmented, philosophical, and heavily reliant on symbolism and stream of consciousness. I would suggest to read We by Zamyatin, to the readers who prefer modernist complexity over narrative accessibility. We contains a more pervasive and psychologically intense exploration of sexuality, which is essential to the protagonist's philosophical unraveling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)