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«My» Evgenija Zamjatina – znakovyj roman, s kotorogo oficial'no otschityvajut samo sushhestvovanie zhanra «antiutopija». Dejstvie razvorachivaetsja priblizitel'no v tridcat' vtorom veke. Roman opisyvaet obshhestvo zhestkogo totalitarnogo kontrolja nad lichnost'ju. Zapreshhennyj v sovetskij period, on javljaetsja klassicheskim proizvedeniem ne tol'ko russkoj, no i mirovoj literatury HH veka, i pervoistochnikom romana «1984» Dzhordzha Orujella. Roman ob «obshhestve ravnyh», v kotorom chelovecheskaja lichnost' svedena k lichnomu «nomeru» (imena i familii zameneny bukvami i nomerami, gosudarstvo kontroliruet absoljutno vse. Posle razrushitel'noj dvuhsotletnej vojny pogibaet 98% procentov naselenija Zemli. Ostavshiesja ljudi, zhertvuja svoej lichnoj svobodoj i individual'nost'ju, sozdajut Edinoe gosudarstvo – oplot porjadka, edinenija i ravenstva. Shiller skazal: «Ljubov' i golod pravjat mirom». Osnovateli Edinogo gosudarstva pokorili jetih vladyk: golod – neftjanoj pishhej, ljubov' – rozovymi biletami. Vse v jetom gorode racional'no i matematicheski tochno, mnozhestvo domov ogranicheno Zelenoj stenoj ot haosa okruzhajushhego irracional'nogo mira, a sami doma – matricy iz stekla, gde kazhdyj jelement, kazhdyj «nomer», na vidu v svoej jachejke. Vse unificirovano – odezhda i zhil'e, postupki, mysli i chuvstva. V gosudarstve, idejno osnovannom na neogranichennom povyshenii jekonomicheskoj jeffektivnosti, kul'te nauchnogo znanija i otricanii fantazii, pravit «izbiraemyj» na bezal'ternativnoj osnove «Blagodetel'», edinolichno reshajushhij sud'bu «nomerov». U «nomerov» net sobstvennyh celej, net sem'i, net prochnyh svjazej, net dazhe ljubvi... No mozhno li polnost'ju vytravit' iz cheloveka zhazhdu svobody, poka on ostaetsja chelovekom? Konec knigi... idealen. Delo v tom, chto na protjazhenii romana mashinochelovek D-503, postepenno stanovitsja nastojashhim, chuvstvujushhim, jemocional'nym chelovekom, takim obrazom – v centre romana dramatizm preobrazovanija racional'noj lichnosti v irracional'nuju, normal'nuju dlja nas s vami. No Zamjatin delaet sledujushhij shag, chtoby pokazat' ves' uzhas tvorjashhegosja on odnim roscherkom pera, prevrashhaet jetogo sformirovavshegosja, zhivogo cheloveka obratno v mashinu, sposobnuju holodno, dazhe s nekotorym udovol'stviem opisyvat', kak pytajut i ubivajut teh, kogo on ljubil. Kstati, o pobede revoljucionerov v knige i rechi net, poskol'ku gorozhane uspeshno soprotivljajutsja atakam ljudej iz-za steny, i mozhno predpolozhit', chto v Gorode vse ostanetsja tak, kak bylo. Odnako, roman i ne pronizan bezyshodnost'ju: zhenshhina glavnogo geroja s ego rebenkom zhivut gde-to snaruzhi, za Stenoj i, navernoe, schastlivy.

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"As the first major anti-utopian fantasy ... has its own peculiar wryness and grace, sharper than the pamphleteering of 1984 or the philosophical schema of Brave New World, its celebrated descendants". -- Kirkus Reviews

""We" is one of the great novels of the twentieth century."-- Irving Howe"One of the best!"-- "New York Review of Books""As the first major anti-utopian fantasy . . . "We has its own peculiar wryness and grace, sharper than the pamphleteering of "1984" or thephilosophical scheme of "Brave New World, " its celebrated descendants."-- "Kirkus Reviews""Fantastic."-- "The New York Times"
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Before Brave New World... Before 1984... There was We

In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.

One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.

A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, WE is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.

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