O-90's other lover and D-503's best friend is R-13, a State poet who reads his verse at public executions. She is considered too short to bear children and is deeply grieved by her state in life. D-503's lover, O-90, has been assigned by One State to visit him on certain nights. Like all other citizens of the One State, D-503 lives in a glass apartment building and is carefully watched by the secret police, or Bureau of Guardians. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship. Plot Ī few hundred years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. The individual's behaviour is based on logic by way of formulae and equations outlined by the One State. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. D-503 ( Russian: Д-503), a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. George Orwell said that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We, although Huxley denied this.

It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. Dutton in New York, with the original Russian text first published in 1952. It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921.

We by yevgeny zamyatin