/lit/ - Literature

>>16954394
shilling this

>>16957268
You don't need to read the story of a degenerate making a half-step toward his delusional idea of redemption. You need to read this.

For those unfamiliar with "We", it was basically stolen to make "1984", "Brave New World, and especially "Anthem".:

There are similarities between Anthem and the 1921 novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, another author who had lived in communist Russia. These include:

A novel taking the form of a secret diary or journal.

People are identified by codes instead of names.

Children separated from their parents and brought up by the State.

Individualism disposed of in favor of collective will.

A male protagonist who discovers individuality through his relationship with a female character.

A forest as a 'free' place outside the dystopian city.

The protagonist discovers a link to the past, when people were free, in a tunnel under the Earth.

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