We

Author: Zamyatin (Russian) Yin Gao
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: As a dystopian work, We targets the various flaws of totalitarianism. The entire book is written in the form of notes, feigning the perspective of a model citizen living in a future world, satirizing the lives and minds of various individuals in the highly digitized, centrally managed "All-Union." In the All-Union, which has climbed to the "peak of human civilization," all citizens are named after numbers. The protagonist is named "D-503." D-503 is a mathematician raised by the All-Union, full of loyalty to it, and specially took notes, intending to praise the magnificent All-Union. However, no matter how advanced and civilized the All-Union is, it cannot overcome the lingering human nature. A stunningly beautiful female number, I-330, suddenly appears and completely shakes D-503's pure heart. Under I-330's temptation, D-503 gradually liberates his nature, transforming from an extremely loyalist who at the beginning of the novel cannot help but want to become a machine, into an ordinary person with hatred and love, with blood, flesh, and a "soul." However, things are far from that simple. I-330's approach to D-503 has her own secret plan. The ending of the work is unexpected and heart-stirring.