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“True literature can only exist where it is made not by executive and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, skeptics.” Did Yevgeny Zamyatin consider himself a skeptic or a dreamer? It's unlikely we'll find out. One thing is certain: his dystopian novel “We,” the first dystopian novel of the 20th century, is real literature.
The narrative of a Single Welfare State was immediately banned by “executive and trustworthy officials.” But, having burst into the world in translations first into English and Czech, and then into Finnish and Italian, the novel “We” captured the minds of readers. Under his influence, recognized world classics created their works: Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov.
The black and white drawings of Andrei Simanchuk fit perfectly into the strange, uneven rhythm of the diary entries. The confident pressure of rigid linear logic is suddenly interrupted by uneven, fading strokes of feelings and emotions, so that in the finale they fall onto the page with a thick cross-shaped shadow of an unfulfilled paradise.