Writing style
Dense · Essayistic · Experimental · Lyrical
Apple BooksWe
Science fiction
- First published
- 1924
- Print length
- 203 pagesModern Library, 2006
Description
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a dystopian novel set in a future One State, where spacecraft engineer D-503 lives in a city built of glass and designed for pervasive surveillance. Citizens wear uniforms, move in step, and use numbers instead of personal names. Strict logic, formulas, and equations govern both public life and individual behavior, making order a principle of everyday existence. Through this rationalized society, the novel considers what happens when political authority seeks to make human conduct measurable and visible. The setting also reflects, in part, Zamyatin’s experiences of revolution and industrial labor rationalization.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Measured
Tone
Cerebral · Dark · Philosophical · Unsettling
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Ideas · World
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 4 / 5
- Ideas
- 4 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812974621
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