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Long before Orwell warned us about Big Brother, Zamyatin had already built the glass hell. We is the novel that started it all, the mother of all modern dystopias . It is a simple read, yet profound and philosophical. Its vision is so lucid and terrifying that it stays with you forever. 

This masterpiece immerses us in the "One State," a totalitarian regime where mathematical logic has crushed individuality. Here there is no "I," only "We." People live in glass houses, under the constant surveillance of the Benefactor, and passions are considered a disease. Zamyatin, with sharp prose, explores a man's desperate struggle to reclaim his soul in a world that has snatched it away.

This Cátedra edition is, simply put, perfect . The introduction by Fernando Ángel Moreno is a masterful essay that illuminates every corner of the work, and the careful translation by Alfredo Hermosillo and Valeria Artemyeva allows readers to enjoy the author's complex prose. An essential book to understand the origin of the genre and for anyone who values the individual's struggle against a system that seeks to annul them.

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Synopsis

D-503 is a brilliant mathematician and the builder of the spaceship "Integral," designed to subjugate other planets to the logic of the One State. His life, like everyone else's, is perfectly regulated by the Hourly Tables. However, his world of certainties crumbles when he meets the mysterious and rebellious I-330, who shows him that there is a world beyond the glass walls: a world of passions, irrationality, and secrets. Through the diary he begins to write—a criminal act of individualism—D-503 narrates his terrifying transformation.

About the author

Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russia, 1884 - Paris, 1937) was a naval engineer and writer. Although he initially supported the Russian Revolution, he soon became a fierce critic of censorship and the suppression of freedom of thought under the new regime. His novel We , written in the early 1920s, was immediately banned in the Soviet Union and had to be first published abroad. This work cost him his career and forced him into exile in Paris in 1931. His modernist style and courageous political satire make him one of the most important figures in 20th-century literature.

Technical Sheet

  • Pages: 320

  • Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

  • Publisher: Cátedra 

  • Binding: Paperback

  • Introduction: Fernando Ángel Moreno

  • Translation: Alfredo Hermosillo and Valeria Artemyeva

  • Edition: 2023

  • ISBN: 9788437628936

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