Books: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

[woodwardiocom]

-This is an early Russian dystopian novel, banned in the Soviet Union. It was one of the major inspirations for Nineteen Eighty-Four. Also, kinda dull. I'm afraid I didn't finish it.

Edit: It's the Mirra Ginsburg translation.

Comments

[beowabbit]

Hmmm. I didn’t find it dull, but I read it in Russian, so maybe that was affected by the fact that having to look words up slowed me down anyway.

Do you happen to remember who translated the version you read? I find that for some reason translations from Russian often tend to come off as dry and academic, even when the original isn’t that way at all.