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Book 105 for the year - which is one more than last year and we still have one month to go - and it’s a warning about the rise of a totalitarian state.
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗪𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗭𝗮𝗺𝘆𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 -
Early Soviet dystopia, the terror at the loss of humanity, the glorification of service to State, and a protagonist who may not want to be saved.
https://waywordsstudio.com/general/reviews/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin/
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A few of the titles I'll be reading this month! (And yes, that is "Planet of the Men," Pierre Boulle's screenplay sequel to the original 1968 film!)
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A couple more:
"We", by #YevgenyZamyatin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
"The Iron Heel", by #JackLondon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
Cool post, #thanks! :vulcan_hmn_g1:!
New today to celebrate #SunriseOnTheReaping, here is my talk for the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville: “Why You Should Read #TheHungerGames.”
https://youtu.be/vWljg0__E6k?si=qjvy7Hx0Doyvltn_
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Started reading "Nosotros" (Spanish edition of US) from Yevgeny Zamyatin, and it's so interesting and impressive that book was written 99 years ago and it describes the actual world we are living now. Still on chapter 13 with high expectations!
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If human stupidity were groomed and educated for centuries, just like the mind, maybe something extraordinarily precious would come out of it.
After the revolution, children on the street played in a completely new way: "Admiral Kolchak." One - "Kolchak" - was hiding, others were looking for him, then, with drumming, singing, they shot him with sticks.
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In October, when the leaves have already turned yellow, withered, wilted, there are blue-eyed days. Throwing your head back on such a day so as not to see the earth - and you can believe: more joy, more summer.
- .. I'm leading him: an intelligent muzzle - it's just disgusting to look at. And still talking, bitch, huh? Talking!
- Well, and what - brought?
- Brought: without a transplant - to the Kingdom of Heaven. By bayonet.
In the voice of the young artist Yevgeny Zamyatin, first of all and loudest of all, cry of pain for Russia. This is the main motive of his work. And from all the pages of Zamyatin's few works, the indignant face of our homeland emerges brightly and convexly; the sick confusion of the Russian "unlucky" soul; nightmarish and disastrous disorder of our being. And right next to it is a thirst for achievement and a passionate search for the truth...
The words have been tamed by Fyodor Sologub so much that he even allows himself a dangerous game with them. He flex the traditional direct style of Russian prose. In "The Petty Demon" and "The Created Legend", in many in his stories, he certainly mixes the strongest extract of everyday language with the upbeat and refined language of romance ...