Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (; January 20 ( Julian ) / February 1 ( Gregorian ), 1884 – March 10, 1937 ) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.

Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution.

Zamyatin was born in Lebedyan, south of Moscow.

Renoir's 1936 adaptation of Gorky's The Lower Depths was co-written by Zamyatin.

Two notable exclusions from this trend were Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of dystopian novel We, and Mikhail Bulgakov, who, while using science fiction instrumentary in Heart of a Dog, The Fatal Eggs and Ivan Vasilyevich, was interested in social satire rather than scientistic progress.

Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin worked at Swan Hunter in 1916-17, and used it as background for his great anti-utopian work We which was a major influence on George Orwell's-Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Zamyatin was a trained marine engineer, hence his dispatch to Newcastle to oversee ice-breaker construction for the Imperial Russian Navy.

D-503 incidentally gives his age here as 32, the age Zamyatin was in Newcastle.

" This was a world view which Zamyatin came to despise, and We dramatizes the conflict between nature / spirit and artifice / order.

The role of the poet / writer, as Zamyatin saw it, was to be the heretical voice ( or " I ") that always insisted on imagination, especially when established institutions seek conformity and concerted effort (" We ") toward a defined goal.

In the early 1920s, Kholomki hosted an art colony that was frequented by Korney Chukovsky, Vladislav Khodasevich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

In 1921 Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote his bitter novel We, forecasting the " victory of forces of reason over forces of kindness " in Soviet Russia ; prior to perestroika it was known only in the West and influenced both Orwell and Huxley.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

The Eastern Bloc produced a quantity of social science fiction, including works by polish authors Stanislaw Lem and Janusz Zajdel as well as Soviet Union representants Strugatsky brothers, Kir Bulychov, Yevgeny Zamyatin and Ivan Yefremov.

In his letter, Zamyatin wrote, " True literature can only exist when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics ".

* Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 ( screenplay based on Gorky's play )-Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin ( as E. Zamiatine ), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.

There are similarities between Anthem and the 1921 novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, another author who had lived in communist Russia.

Dutton, New York. 1924 first edition, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York. We () is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921.

* We ( novel ) by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

The libretto by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis is based on the story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol.

* We, a science-fiction novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin with a state cult.

* We ( Russian: Мы ), a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921 in response to the Russian Revolution.

* We ( novel ), a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Image: Mitrohin for Zamiatin's Uezdnoe. jpg | Book cover for Uezdnoe, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1916

Zamyatin originally supported the October Revolution, but opposed the increasing use of censorship which followed.

We has often been discussed as a political satire aimed at the police state which Zamyatin perceived in the Soviet Union.

Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents.

It may variously be examined as ( 1 ) a polemic against the optimistic scientific socialism of H. G. Wells whose works Zamyatin had previously published and with the heroic verses of the ( Russian ) Proletarian Poets, ( 2 ) as an example of Expressionist theory and ( 3 ) as an illustration of the archetype theories of Carl Jung as applied to literature.

Ultimately, Zamyatin arranged for We to be smuggled to the West for publication.

After graduating as an engineer for the Imperial Russian Navy, Zamyatin worked professionally at home and abroad.

In 1923, Zamyatin arranged for the manuscript of his novel We to be smuggled to E. P.

Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.

He wrote on the Russian mafia for Details ( magazine ), on Harold Robbins ’ literary heritage for The New York Times Book Review, and on Yevgeny Zamyatin for The New Criterion.

Zamyatin wrote The Islanders, satirizing English life, and its pendant A Fisher of Men, both published after his return to Russia in late 1917.

Even then, in the late 20s, despite rising criticism of the OBERIU performances and diatribes against the avant-garde in the press, Kharms nurtured a fantasy of uniting the progressive artists and writers of the time ( Malevich, Filonov, Terentiev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kaverin, Zamyatin ) with leading Russian Formalist critics ( Tynianov, Shklovsky, Eikhenbaum, Ginzburg, etc .,) and a younger generation of writers ( all from the OBERIU crowd — Alexander Vvedensky, Konstantin Vaginov, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Igor Bakhterev ), to form a cohesive cultural movement of Left Art.

At that time many notable filmmakers, writers, and actors were active at the studio, such as Yevgeni Zamyatin, Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Kheifets, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Yutkevich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Akimov, Yuri Tynyanov, Veniamin Kaverin, Viktor Shklovsky, and the writers of Serapion Brothers, as well as many other figures of Russian and Soviet culture.

Max Eastman, an American communist who had similarly broken with his former beliefs, described the Politburo's campaign against Zamyatin in his book Artists in Uniform.

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* Yevgeny Zamyatin, a Russian writer

In 1931, Zamyatin appealed directly to Joseph Stalin, requesting permission to leave the Soviet Union.

Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Then, in 1927, Zamyatin went much further.

In addition to We, Zamyatin also wrote a number of short stories, in fairy tale form, that constituted satirical criticism of Communist ideology.

Zamyatin settled with his wife in Paris, where he collaborated with French film director Jean Renoir.