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In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual... read more
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“You are perfect. You are machinelike. The road to one hundred percent happiness is free. Hurry, then, everyone - old and young - hurry to submit to the Great Operation. Hurry to the auditoriums, where the Great Operation is being performed. Long live the Great Operation! Long live the One State! Long live the Benefactor!”
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“How describe what it does to me this ancient, absurd, miraculous ritual, when her lipstouch mine? What formula can express the storm that sweeps everything out of mysoul but her? Yes, yes, my soul - laugh if you will.”
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bliss and envy—they are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness.
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Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like . . . well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When the velocity of the aero = 0, it doesn’t move; when the freedom of a person = 0, he doesn’t commit crime. This is clear. The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.
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“Who knows who you are . . . A person is a novel: you don’t know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be worth reading to the very end . . .”
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And this is the natural path from insignificance to greatness: forget that you are a gram, and feel as though you are a millionth part of the ton . . .
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“That means you love it. You’re afraid of it—because it is stronger than you. You hate it—because you are afraid of it. You love it—because you can’t conquer it yourself. You see, you can only love the unconquerable.”
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The Christians of the ancient world (our only predecessors, as imperfect as they were) also understood this: humility is a virtue and pride is a vice; “WE” is divine, and “I” is satanic.
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
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It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.1
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“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”
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Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.”
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First Sentence edit
I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the Integral will be completed in one hundred and twenty days.
Table of Contents edit
RECORD 1: Announcement - The Wisest of Lines - An Epic Poem
RECORD 2: Ballet - Harmony Squared - X
RECORD 3: Jacket - Wall - The Table
RECORD 4: Savage with Barometer - Epilepsy - If
RECORD 5: Square - Rulers of the World - Pleasant and Useful Function
RECORD 6: Accident - Damned "Clear" - 24 Hours
RECORD 7: An Eyelash - Taylor - Henbane and Lily of the Valley
RECORD 8: The Irrational Root - R-13 - Triangle
RECORD 9: Liturgy - Iambs and Trochees - Cast-Iron Hand
RECORD 10: Letter - Membrane - Hairy Me
RECORD 11: No, I Can't... - Skip the Contents
RECORD 12: Limitation of Infinity - Angel - Reflections on Poetry
RECORD 13: Fog - Familiar "You" - An Absolutely Inane Occurrence
RECORD 14: "Mine" - Forbidden - Cold Floor
RECORD 15: Bell - Mirror-like Sea - My Fate to Burn Forever
RECORD 16: Yellow - Two-dimensional Shadow - Incurable Soul
RECORD 17: Through Glass - I Died - Hallways
RECORD 18: Logical Labyrinth - Wounds and Plaster - Never Again
RECORD 19: Third-Order Infinitesimal - A Sullen Glare - Over the Parapet
RECORD 20: Discharge - Idea Material - Zero Cliff
RECORD 21: An Author's Duty - Swollen Ice - The Most Difficult Love
RECORD 22: Frozen Waves - Everything Tends to Perfection - I Am a Microbe
RECORD 23: Flowers - Dissolution of a Crystal - If Only
RECORD 24: Limit of Function - Easter - Cross It All Out
RECORD 25: Descent from Heaven - History's Greatest Catastrophe - End of the Known
RECORD 26: The World Exists - A Rash - 41° Centigrade
RECORD 27: No Contents--Can't
RECORD 28: Both Women - Entropy and Energy - Opaque Part of the Body
RECORD 29: Threads on the Face - Shoots - Unnatural Compression
RECORD 30: The Final Number - Galileo's Mistake - Wouldn't It Be Better
RECORD 31: The Great Operation - I Have Forgiven Everything - A Train Wreck
RECORD 32: I Do Not Believe - Tractors - The Human Chip
RECORD 33: (No Time for Contents, Last Note)
RECORD 34: Those on Leave - A Sunny Night - Radio-Valkyrie
RECORD 35: In a Hoop - Carrot - Murder
RECORD 36 Blank Pages - The Christian God - About My Mother
RECORD 37: Infusorian - Doomsday - Her Room
RECORD 38: (I Don't Know What Goes Here, Maybe Just: A Cigarette Butt)
RECORD 39: The End
RECORD 40: Facts - The Bell - I Am Certain
Series & Lists edit
This book is in School Library (Школьная Библиотека). (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 1 of 19 in Modern Voices. (community list)
This book is in Penguin's Top 100 Classics. (authoritative list)
This book is in Modern Library Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in Penguin Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 707 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Magic Mountain, and followed by A Passage to India.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Natasha Randall (Translator)
- Gregory Zilboorg
- Clarence Brown
- Mirra Ginsburg (Translator) - Translation to English.
- Will Self (Foreword)
- Clarice Lima Averina (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Russian
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1924
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 226
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1924
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 226
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- Library of Congress: PG3476.Z34 M913
- Dewey: 891.7342
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