biography
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Zamyatin, Yevgeny Ivanovich
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also spelled Zamiatin
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pronunciation:
[zamyatin]
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| lived:
| (1884–1937)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Lebedyan, W Russia. In 1914 he wrote a novella, At the World's End, satirizing the life of army officers, and was tried but acquitted of ‘maligning the officer corps’. He lived in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1916–17, where he wrote two satires on the English, Islanders and A Fisher of Men, both set in Newcastle. Although supportive of the 1917 revolution, he was also an outspoken critic, and he was among the first writers to be hounded by the party apparatchiks. In 1920 he wrote My (We), a fantasy set in the 26th-c AD which influenced both Huxley and Orwell. It was circulated in manuscript but never published in the USSR; it prophesied Stalinism and the totalitarian state, and led to the banning of his works. His best stories are contained in The Dragon, first published in English in 1966. With Gorky's help he was allowed to leave Russia in 1931, and he settled for exile in Paris. |
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