Books
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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In a regimented future society, where everything from sex to your free time is controlled, a man is subverted from the path of orthodoxy by an unconventional woman. If it sounds like 1984, then it's no surprise - Orwell was inspired by this book which was written over 20 years earlier. Whilst glass skyscrapers and mathematical efficiency replace the dinginess and Newspeak drudgery, you can almost imagine these two parallel universes playing out side by side.
(Kate Ellis - bwl 82 Autumn 2016) |
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