Originally posted on Substack In 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote a dystopian novel called We, which influenced countless dystopian authors, especially George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Zamyatin (1884-1937), a Russian author, was a popular figure in Russian society until the Soviet Revolution. He was increasingly pushed out of the literary scene before writing We.
The Novel that Influenced a Century of Dystopias
