WE (Dystopian Classic)
A Mathematical Dystopia of Surveillance, Collectivism, and the Struggle for Individual FreedomBy Yevgeny Zamyatin
Length7h 22m
About this audiobook
Yevgeny Zamyatin's *We* is a pioneering dystopian novel that imagines the One State, a mathematically ordered society in which citizens are identified by numbers, live according to rigid timetables, and surrender private feeling to collective rationality. Narrated by D-503, the engineer of the spaceship Integral, the novel traces his destabilizing encounter with imagination, desire, and individuality through the enigmatic I-330. Its fragmented, metaphorically charged diary entries—full of geometric imagery, abrupt tonal shifts, and linguistic disorientation—form a modernist counterpoint to the regime's sterile logic. Written before Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four* and Huxley's *Brave New World*, *We* helped establish the central conventions of twentieth-century dystopian fiction while engaging critically with the mechanization and utopian politics of the revolutionary age. Zamyatin (1884–1937), a Russian engineer, satirist, and committed yet independent-minded revolutionary, drew upon his experience of industrial modernity, state coercion, and the ideological pressures surrounding the Bolshevik Revolution. His opposition was directed not simply at one political system but at every doctrine that converts humanity into an abstract collective and treats dissent as a technical defect. The novel's publication history—first circulated abroad after Soviet censorship prevented its domestic release—underscores its critique of enforced unanimity. Readers interested in political philosophy, modernist experimentation, or the history of speculative fiction will find *We* both intellectually rigorous and artistically startling. It remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how freedom, creativity, and love resist systems designed to make human beings perfectly predictable.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length7 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 10 Dystopian Novels & SF Classics (Annotated)
23Record Twenty
2Foreword
24Record Twenty-one
3Thirty-five Years Later
25Record Twenty-two
4Record One
26Record Twenty-three
5Record Two
27Record Twenty-four
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6Record Three
28Record Twenty-five
7Record Four
29Record Twenty-six
8Record Five
30Record Twenty-seven
9Record Six
31Record Twenty-eight
10Record Seven
32Record Twenty-nine
11Record Eight
33Record Thirty
12Record Nine
34Record Thirty-one
13Record Ten
35Record Thirty-two
14Record Eleven
36Record Thirty-three
15Record Twelve
37Record Thirty-four
16Record Thirteen
38Record Thirty-five
17Record Fourteen
39Record Thirty-six
18Record Fifteen
40Record Thirty-seven
19Record Sixteen
41Record Thirty-eight
20Record Seventeen
42Record Thirty-nine
21Record Eighteen
43Record Forty
22Record Nineteen
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