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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
4.0
“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
I won’t delve too far into the plot of this book because it’s best jumping in semi-blind. I did so, only knowing it was the inspiration for 1984 by George Orwell.
We takes place in the distant future. We follow D-503 through a series of records that detail life under the control of “the One State,” an authoritarian government. The welfare of One State comes before everything. Including individual freedom, which doesn’t exist here. There is no “I,” there’s only “We.”
I won’t delve too far into the plot of this book because it’s best jumping in semi-blind. I did so, only knowing it was the inspiration for 1984 by George Orwell.
We takes place in the distant future. We follow D-503 through a series of records that detail life under the control of “the One State,” an authoritarian government. The welfare of One State comes before everything. Including individual freedom, which doesn’t exist here. There is no “I,” there’s only “We.”