Word: zamiatin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orwell's 1984 was obviously influenced and perhaps inspired by a book called We, a nearly forgotten totalitarian fantasy by Russian Writer Eugene Zamiatin. We was written in 1923, translated into English by Manhattan Psychiatrist Gregory Zilboorg and published in the U.S. in 1924. Orwell read it in a French translation in 1946 and wrote an enthusiastic review of it in London's weekly Tribune, of which he was then literary editor. Orwell's is the better book in every way, but his debt to We is quickly apparent. In the Russian's novel the characters...
...Zamiatin died in Paris...
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