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selenicseasThis book had been on my TBR list for quite a while, and this past month I finally got around to reading it…two years after I picked it up at a local used bookstore. The version I have was translated by Mirra Ginsburg.
I will admit now that I've (somehow) never read a single dystopian science fiction novel – not even the ones that were inspired by We, like 1984. I have absolutely nothing to compare it to and honestly wasn't sure of what to expect. I didn't even look at the synopsis on the back of the book before I started reading.
The book is written as a series of journal entries. The protagonist is the lead architect of a spaceship that will be visiting other planets, and his journal is to be an introduction to life in the One State. There's plenty of explanation of how the One State and the people in it function.
If I was to summarize We in a single sentence, I would say "A man meets a woman, falls in love, and straight up loses his mind over it". There's a massive amount of context missing, of course, but I don't want to go too much into spoiler territory here.
One thing that stuck with me is that a character points out that "there is no final [revolution]; revolutions are infinite". It is definitely something to keep in mind.
I will admit now that I've (somehow) never read a single dystopian science fiction novel – not even the ones that were inspired by We, like 1984. I have absolutely nothing to compare it to and honestly wasn't sure of what to expect. I didn't even look at the synopsis on the back of the book before I started reading.
The book is written as a series of journal entries. The protagonist is the lead architect of a spaceship that will be visiting other planets, and his journal is to be an introduction to life in the One State. There's plenty of explanation of how the One State and the people in it function.
If I was to summarize We in a single sentence, I would say "A man meets a woman, falls in love, and straight up loses his mind over it". There's a massive amount of context missing, of course, but I don't want to go too much into spoiler territory here.
One thing that stuck with me is that a character points out that "there is no final [revolution]; revolutions are infinite". It is definitely something to keep in mind.
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