Review of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We

We has long been recognised as one of the most important, seminal works in modern science fiction. Written in or around 1920, it was not made available in its original form in Zamyatin’s homeland of Russia for decades and its overseas publication led to him seeing out his later years in western Europe. It is a dystopian novel and one which inspired 1984 among many other works. As such, it follows the tradition of Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and, subsequently, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and all the other dystopian visions that have been expressed.

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