His stay in England inspired such satirical worksĪs Ostrovitiane (1918, 'The Islanders'), in which he satirized English obsession with timetables, and Lovets cheloveka (1921, On the eve of the October Revolution, Zamyatin Of icebreakers at the Armstrong-Whitworth shipyards in In 1916 he was sent to England to supervise the construction

Imprisoned and exiled in 1911, but two years later he was givenĪmnesty. Publishing fiction and technical articles.

After graduating as a navalĮngineer in 1908 he lectured at the Polytechnic Institute and began Petersburg, spent some time inįinland in 1906, and continued his studies. (1908), drew on his experiences in prison. Zamyatin was arrested in 1905 and exiled. While still a student, he joined the Bolshevik Party. Progymnasium in Lebedian and gymnasium in Voronezh. Orthodox priest and schoolmaster, and his mother musician. Lebedian, some two hundred miles south of Moscow. Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born in the provincial town of My elbow for fear of shattering the walls, the cupolas, the machines.' (in We, tr. Myself had created all this, and I'm like a tower, I'm afraid to move So I felt that I ? not generations of people,īut I myself ? I had conquered the old God and the old life, I Transparent dwellings, the squared harmony of our gray-blue ranks. The sparkling glass of the sidewalks, the divine parallelepipeds of the Time in my life, I saw everything: the unalterably straight streets, Morning in the hangar, I saw again, as though right then for the first In the English-speaking world My has appeared in several translations. Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was The book was considered a 'malicious slander on socialism' in the Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia My (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949).

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