Contents • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Zamyatin was born in,, 300 km (186 mi) south of. His father was a priest and schoolmaster, and his mother a musician. In a 1922 essay, Zamyatin recalled, 'You will see a very lonely child, without companions of his own age, on his stomach, over a book, or under the piano, on which his mother is playing.' He may have had since he gave letters and sounds qualities. For instance, he saw the letter as having pale, cold and light blue qualities. He studied naval engineering in from 1902 until 1908, during which time he joined the. He was arrested during the and sent into internal exile in. However, he escaped and returned to Saint Petersburg where he lived illegally before moving to the in 1906 to finish his studies. After returning to Russia, he began to write fiction as a hobby. He was arrested and exiled a second time in 1911, but in 1913. His Uyezdnoye ( A Provincial Tale) in 1913, which satirized life in a small Russian town, brought him a degree of fame. The next year he was tried for maligning the Imperial Russian Military in his story Na Kulichkakh ( At the world's end). He continued to contribute articles to various newspapers. After graduating as an engineer for the, Zamyatin worked professionally at home and abroad. In 1916 he was sent to the United Kingdom to supervise the construction of at the shipyards in and while living in. Literary career [ ]. Yevgeny Zamyatin. Zamyatin later recalled, 'In England, I built ships, looked at ruined castles, listened to the thud of bombs dropped by German zeppelins, and wrote The Islanders. I regret that I did not see the, and know only the (I returned to Petersburg, past German submarines, in a ship with lights out, wearing a life belt the whole time, just in time for October). This is the same as never having been in love and waking up one morning already married for ten years or so.' Zamyatin's The Islanders, satirizing English life, and the similarly themed A Fisher of Men, were both published after his return to Russia in late 1917. After the of 1917 he edited several journals, lectured on writing, and edited Russian translations of works by,,, and others. ![]() WIR - SAMJATIN, JEWGENIJ 1 Oct 2015. By Jewgenij Samjatin and Hanns Zischler. £14.98 Prime. Eligible for FREE UK Delivery. Only 2 left in stock - order soon. Jewgenij Samjatin is the author of We (3.95 avg rating, 53931 ratings, 3370 reviews, published 1924) and Wir (4.00 avg rating, 1 rating, 0 reviews). Zamyatin originally supported the October Revolution, but opposed the increasing use of which followed. His works became increasingly satirical and critical toward the CPSU. Although he supported them before they came to power he slowly came to disagree more and more with their policies, particularly those regarding censorship of the arts. In his 1921 essay 'I Am Afraid,' Zamyatin wrote: 'True literature can only exist when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.' This attitude made his position increasingly difficult as the 1920s wore on.
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