Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. 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 soul.
Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.
大一统国，一个一切都透明、精确到什么都不能隐藏的地方。这里的所有建筑物都由玻璃制成：玻璃绿墙隔绝了树木与其他生物；人们住在玻璃屋子中，未经允许不能拉上窗帘；人们在午后四点到五点，要以整齐的步伐，在玻璃人行道上散步。
在这里，人们没有名字，只有编号。人们没有生养自己的父母， “施恩主”就是父亲一般的存在。人们穿着制服，遵照时刻表起床、工作、吃饭，连做爱的时间都经过科学计算。在这里，一切都有“标准”，只要遵守规定，就可以拥有幸福生活。
编号Д-503，宇宙飞船“一统号”的设计师，对大一统国与施恩主深信不疑。他满足于完全科学与理性的生活，直到遇到 I-330……
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