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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
3.0

Okay, I guess there are two ways to look at this:

A distinguished mathematician gets involved with a sexually manipulative dominatrix and, in the process, joins an undeground revolution and satanist cult aiming at disrupting societal order.

His viewpoint changing like a metronome depending on his domina's presence or absence (a troubling signal of a toxic relationship), our protagonist finds himself facing the tough choice whether to betray everything he previously believed in exchange for (possibly) kinky sex.

In the distant future, man is still man, so his choice wouldn't surprise you.


And there is the second way to look at this:

A deep, disturbing, dystopian novel about freedom, the constricting effect of a totalitarian stare to free thought, and salvation through love. Zamyatin's prophetic look into a future that very well may be provokes his readers' thoughts and imagination!