Talk:Yevgeny Zamyatin

I've done my best to edit this page, though the chronology is very tangled. I know it's not done to advertise one's own site, but in this case it's justified. I am the pioneer in unearthing the events of Zamyatin's stay in England 1916-17 and have published on the subject in the Slavonic and East European Review and elsewhere. On his return to Russia in 1917, Zamyatin became known as 'the Englishman', and his English experience had a strong influence on his masterpiece WE For those interested please access:

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers

where the full up-to-date story (with sources!) is displayed. Zamyatin is an important figure in Russia these days, and is increasingly familiar elsewhere. He deserves his stature. One difference between WE and 1984, incidentally, is that Zamyatin's hero is actually a fervent supporter of the Benefactor's regime and views his own hapless slide into heterodoxy with comic dismay.

Emmet 17:32 25.5.05

influence on huxley?

 According to the small authors bio in the beginning of the penguin classics printing of "WE".......

 .....the other great english dystopia of our time, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, was evidently written out of the same impulse, though without direct knowledge of Zamyatin's WE