Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Евгений Иванович Замятин, scientific transliteration Evgenij Ivanovich Zamjatin; * 20 Januarjul / February 1 1884greg in Lebedyan, .. † March 10, 1937 in Paris) was a Russian revolutionary and writer.

Life

According to Wolfgang Kasack " sobered " him " with the reality of their power, the primacy of reason and the denial of the spiritual life." In 1920 he described a fictional society in which all individuality has been suppressed in the novel We. Zamyatin withdrew due to the indirect criticism of establishing a presence in the Soviet society the displeasure of the party leadership to and got banned from writing.

The novel We was in 1924/25 published in various languages ​​around the world. In 1988 appeared the work in the Soviet Union in full Russian version. In addition, we published Zamyatin various fairy tales ( The God fairytale about Fita etc.). In 1929 after the worst smear campaign against him, left Zamyatin, who had rejected at the beginning of the 20s an exit option ( an exit visa was him ), the Soviet Writers' Union. In 1931, he received about Maxim Gorky permission of Stalin, emigrate to France. Zamyatin held until his death Soviet citizenship. He died in Paris in 1937 and is buried in the cemetery of Thiais.

Later published novels by other authors such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, No - The world of defendants by Walter Jens and partly Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury have many similarities with Zamyatin's We.

Works ( in German language )

  • We. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1958
  • The Flea (together with Nikolai Leskov The left-hander from ). Ellermann, Hamburg 1962
  • The Scourge of God, Attila. Ellermann, Hamburg 1965
  • Morning. Stories, essays, documents. Limes, Wiesbaden 1967
  • Russia is big. Stories and satires. Limes, Wiesbaden 1976
  • As the monk Erasmus was healed (Russian / German ). Attached: Encounters with B. M. Kustodiev. Island ( Island Library 1067), Leipzig 1986
  • Small prose. 2 volumes ( The Cave / The North ). Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1989/90
  • Selected Works. 4 volumes. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1991

Libretto

  • The nose. Opera (along with George Jonin, Aleksandr Prejs and Dmitri Shostakovich ). Music (1927 /28): Dmitri Shostakovich. UA 1930 Leningrad
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