LITMIR.BIZ

      First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Canongate Books Ltd,

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      This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books

      Text copyright © 1920 Yevgeny Zamyatin

      Translation and Translator’s Note copyright © 2020 Bela Shayevich

      Introduction copyright © 2020 O.W. Toad Ltd

      ‘Freedom and Happiness’ (review of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin) © 1946 George Orwell ‘The Stalin in the Soul’ copyright © 1989 Ursula K. LeGuin

      The right of Yevgeny Zamyatin to be identified as

      the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance

      with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      The right of Bela Shayevich to be identified as

      the translator of this work has been asserted by her in accordance

      with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 83885 058 6

      eISBN 978 1 83885 059 3

      CONTENTS

       Introduction by Margaret Atwood

       WE Logs:

       1. Announcement. The Wisest Line. An Epic.

       2. Ballet. Quadratic Harmony. X.

       3. Jacket. Wall. The Table of Hours.

       4. The Savage and the Barometer. Epilepsy. If only.

       5. A Square. The Masters of the World. A Pleasant and Useful Function.

       6. An Incident. That Damned ‘Clear’. Twenty-four Hours.

       7. An Eyelash. Taylor. Henbane and Lilies of the Valley.

       8. An Irrational Root. R-13. The Triangle.

       9. Liturgy. Iambs and Trochees. The Iron Hand.

       10. A Letter. Membrane. My Hairy Self.

       11. No, I Can’t, No Brief This Time.

       12. Limited Infinities. An Angel. Thoughts About Poetry.

       13. Fog. You. A Completely Improbable Incident.

       14. ‘Mine’. Mustn’t. The Cold Floor.

       15. The Bell. The Mirroring Sea. I Will Burn Eternally.

       16. Yellow. Two-Dimensional Shadow. Incurable Soul.

       17. Through The Glass. I Died. Hallways.

       18. A Jungle of Logic. Wounds and Bandages. Never Again.

       19. An Infinitesimal of the Third Order. Under the Brow. Over the Balustrade.

       20. Discharge. What an Idea is Made Of. Zero Cliff.

       21. My Duty as an Author. Swollen Ice. The Most Difficult Love.

       22. Frozen Waves. Everything Is Perfected. I Am A Microbe.

       23. Flowers. Dissolving Crystal. As Long As.

       24. Function Limits. Easter. Cross It All Out.

       25. The Descent from the Heavens. The Greatest Catastrophe in History. The End of Everything Known.

       26. The World Exists. A Rash. 41°.

       27. No Brief – It’s Impossible.

       28. Both of Them. Entropy and Energy. An Opaque Part of the Body.

       29. Face Threads. Shoots. Unnatural Compression.

       30. The Final Number. Galileo’s Mistake. Wouldn’t It Be Better?

       31. The Great Operation. I Forgave Everything. Crashing Trains.

       32. I Don’t Believe It. Tractors. A Sliver of Humanity.

       33. (No Summary, In a Hurry, the Last Thing.)

       34. Freedmen.

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