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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
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culture · Russian author (1884–1937) · science fiction writer · engineer · satirist · librettist · screenwriter · playwright · writer · literary critic · novelist · prose writer · also Yevgeny Zamyatin, Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, Eugene Zamyatin, Zamâtin Evgenij Ivanovič, Zamyatin
Born 20 January 1884 · Died 10 March 1937 · Q204868
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My only previous visit to the West had been to Germany. Berlin had impressed me as a condensed, 80-percent version of Petersburg. In England it was quite different: everything was as new and strange as Alexandria and Jerusalem had been some years before.
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“True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.”
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“My only previous visit to the West had been to Germany. Berlin had impressed me as a condensed, 80-percent version of Petersburg. In England it was quite different: everything was as new and strange as Alexandria and Jerusalem had been some years before.”
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Awarded Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (1994).
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We received a Prometheus Award in the Libertarian Futurist Society's "Hall of Fame" category
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Zamyatin's many denunciations of enforced conformity and groupthink, as well as his belief that writers and intellectuals have a duty to oppose the calcification and entropy of human thought has meant that his writings c
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Mirra Ginsburg commented: "Like Bulgakov and like Babel, Zamyatin gives us a glimpse of what post-revolutionary Russian literature might have become had independence, daring, and individuality not been stamped out so rut
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Died 1937-03-10.
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“Ai due abitanti del Paradiso fu data l’opportunità di scegliere: felicità senza libertà o libertà senza felicità; tertium non datur. E loro, asini, scelsero la libertà: e dunque? Si capisce: poi hanno rimpianto le catene per secoli.”
“Gorky was informed of this, and wrote that he was pleased at my participation in the project, that he would like to see the adaptation of his play, and would wait to receive the manuscript. The manuscript was never sent: by the time it was ready for mailing, Gorky was dead.”
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Appealed directly to Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, requesting permission to leave the Soviet Union
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“I do not wish to conceal that the basic reason for my request for permission to go abroad with my wife is my hopeless position here as a writer, the death sentence that has been pronounced upon me as a writer here at home.”
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“that it was impossible for him to remain in a literary organization which, even indirectly, took part in the persecution of its members.”
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Zamyatin went much further
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Zamyatin arranged for the manuscript of his dystopian science-fiction novel We to be smuggled to E
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We became the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board
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Zamyatin wrote, "He who has found his ideal today is, like Lot's wife, already turned into a pillar of salt and does not move ahead
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“He who has found his ideal today is, like Lot”
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Returned to Petersburg and plunged into the seething literary activity that was one of the most astonishing by-products of the revolution in ruined, ravaged, hungry, and epidemic-ridden Russia
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Zamyatin was granted an amnesty as part of the celebrations for 300 years of rule by the House of Romanov and granted the right to return to St
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Studied at Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute (1908).
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Born 1884-01-20.
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Gorky was informed of this, and wrote that he was pleased at my participation in the project, that he would like to see the adaptation of his play, and would wait to receive the manuscript. The manuscript was never sent: by the time it was ready for mailing, Gorky was dead.
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