AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.


Ye. I. ZAMIATIN (1884-1937)

(Image excerpt from a portrait by B. M. Kustodiiev; full portrait in Povesti i rasskazy by Evgenij Zamiatin. Munich: izd. TsOPE, 1963.)

READINGS FOR THE COURSE


"The Lion"

The Lion. From the "Soviet Literature" page. Translated text. Includes a little bit about Zamiatin as well.


OTHER LITERARY WORKS


We

Hard Science Fiction. We in the context of "hard science fiction" (=that sf which is about "the truth"). Interesting page from The Ascent of Wonder © 1994 by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Topic: Zamyatin's We. Discussion group on Zamyatin's novel. Topic posted by Marc Zaldivar.


(English Language Sources)


(Russian Language Sources)

Evgenij Zamiatin. Several works posted on Maksim Moshkow's site.


ON ZAMIATIN AND HIS WORKS - GENERAL INFORMATION


(English Language Sources)

Zamiatin's "Letter to Stalin". Published on Gregory Freidin's site.

Stifled Heresy: The Tragedy of Zamyatin. Two-part essay on Z's life and works. From

Zamyatin, Evgeny Ivanovich. From the "Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers" page.

Book review. From Danny Yee on A Soviet Heretic: Yevgeny Zamyatin and On Literature and Art. Leon Trotsky

Yevgeni Zamyatin. From Spartacus Educational.


(Russian Language Sources)


LECTURES, ARTICLES AND STUDY NOTES ON ZAMIATIN

Order, Chaos, and Dimensionality in Zamyatin's We. From Bruce Clarke, Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics.

Kafka v Zamyatin on Oppression and Tyranny. By Bryan Register.

Shostakovich, Zamyatin, Goldsteing, and "The Bolt". Article on "a hoax unmasked" on Dr. Allen D. Ho's site.


PICTURES OF ZAMIATIN / TOURS OF ZAMIATIN PLACES

Drawing. By B. Kustodiev, 1923.

Zamyatin. Image posted on tstu.ru. (Images associated with Tambov).

Zamiatin photo and another from Russkaya fantastika.


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