Russian reading club: Zamyatin’s “WE” (Мы)
Friday, April 17, 2009, 6:30 p.m., at the home of Tanya Wright, Instructor of Russian at American River College.
3448 Ridge Rim Ct.
Antelope, CA 95843
At our second and final meeting, we’ll talk about what this book means to you.
Here are some recommended articles about Zamyatin’s “We.” To view articles 1-3, you’ll need access to JSTOR (available to Sac State students through the Library).
“Two Adams and an Eve in the Crystal Palace: Dostoevsky, the Bible and We,” Richard A. Gregg.
“United State Revisited: Pynchon and Zamiatin,” James I. McClintock.
“A Neglected Source of Zamiatin’s novel ‘We’,” Elizabeth Stenbock-Fermor.
“Zamyatin in Newcastle,” Alan Meyers.
Online text of “We” in Russian: http://az.lib.ru/z/zamjatin_e_i/text_0050.shtml
Recommended English translation: http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780812974621-0
Join us:
Written in 1919-1921, this work of early Soviet science fiction presents a distopia set centuries in the future when almost all human activities and emotions have been regulated by the State. Almost all.
