book: WE , Yevgeny Zamyatin

WE is one of the Original authoritarian Utopias, written in the 1920s, predating 1984 and Brave New World . The book is a short, masterful piece that did not go down very well with the Soviets. The main character, Δ-503 (in my translation) or D-503, serves as a narrator who has grown up generations-deep in the One State, a regime which tightly controls as much of human life as it can. society is…