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Thursday 9th July 2009
14:40

I like the cover of Vintage’s 2007 edition of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. Kurt Vonnegut said of writing Player Piano: “I cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Eugene Zamiatin’s We.” Though Aldous Huxley said he wrote Brave New World before he ever read We, translator Nathasha Randall said in an interview with WNYC that George Orwell thought Huxley was lying. Orwell began writing Nineteen Eighty-Four eight months after reading We. Though mostly written in Petrograd in 1921, much of the basis for the novel was present in his novella, Islanders, which Zamyatin started writing in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1916. We wasn’t published in Russia until 1989.

I like the cover of Vintage’s 2007 edition of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.

Kurt Vonnegut said of writing Player Piano: “I cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Eugene Zamiatin’s We.”

Though Aldous Huxley said he wrote Brave New World before he ever read We, translator Nathasha Randall said in an interview with WNYC that George Orwell thought Huxley was lying. Orwell began writing Nineteen Eighty-Four eight months after reading We.

Though mostly written in Petrograd in 1921, much of the basis for the novel was present in his novella, Islanders, which Zamyatin started writing in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1916. We wasn’t published in Russia until 1989.

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