Evgenii Zamyatin, "We" 1920

book that reportedly inspired 1984 (Orwell cited it as the key influence) + brave new world.. the guy is a fucking don. i should have "we" available in a couple of weeks.

Zamyatin is not as well known as later Soviet dissidents such as Solzhenitsyn, perhaps because he never renounced his Marxism and because his opposition to Stalinism was artistic rather than political

"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics." (I Am Afraid, 1919)

"Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest...

But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final number?

Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one.
Revolutions are infinite." (We, 1920)