About this episode

The episode discusses the novel 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin and its significance in the context of dystopian literature.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hunger Games made “dystopia” an entertainment genre, but when Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing in the early 1920s, it was only beginning to dawn on humanity just how bad the future might be. OrContinue reading "The First Dystopia"

People in this episode

Host: Damien Walter

Topics covered

• dystopia
• literature
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• future
• entertainment genre

Keywords

• dystopia
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• We
• Logan’s Run
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Hunger Games
• literature
• future

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: We, Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale, Hunger Games

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