Мы (1924)

Zamyatin's We, linked here under its Russian title, places a mathematician inside a glass-built state that wants desire to submit to calculation. First published in English in 1924, it gives rational order a disturbingly attractive internal vocabulary. The fractured journal makes the loss of certainty immediate. Clarence Brown's English translation is a useful reading option. Discuss the costs of perfect administration, alongside the narrower way its male narrator imagines personal liberation.