"Us" is a novel that combines science fiction and social satire. In the form of notes, the work depicts the life scenes of a totalitarian country in the 26th century, "One Country of Many": everyone has only a number, no name, lives in a completely transparent glass house, wears the same uniform, eats chemical food, enjoys a rationed sex life, and is ruled by a never-changing all-powerful "benefactor". "Us" is a masterpiece handed down by Zamyatin, which created a new literary genre of dystopian novels. Together with Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and George Orwell's "1984," it is also known as the most famous dystopian trilogy in the world's literary world.
Reader comments
The book talks about two kinds of life, one is happiness without freedom, and the other is freedom without happiness. This kind of "happiness" is obtained by giving up one's own personality, one's own differences, and one's own imagination. It is an abnormal "happiness". People can only live the same life as everyone else, living happily in an illusory way, but this kind of life is extremely dangerous and loses the goals that can be pursued and fought for, so that the people think that this way of life is correct and needs to exist for a long time, just like ignorance is power in "1984", and this is the true meaning of "us".
The happiness obtained by giving up one's own personality, one's own differences, one's own imagination, and one's own struggle and pursuit can only be an illusory and empty happiness. What can be obtained in exchange can only be the so-called "fake happiness", but "we" have always followed such a "happiness". It's hard to imagine what would happen to the world when you lose your own personality, your own differences, your own imagination, and your own pursuit of struggle? What will happen to the world when there is no "I" but only "us"?
We all emphasize the collective, but the collective is not a copy and paste of individuals, but is composed of living individuals. No matter when, personality and sensibility are indispensable to us. Classic works will resonate in any era. If you read them carefully, we can also draw nourishment from them and read our lives at a higher level.
I believe that there are indeed people in the world who want to create a "unified" world that does not allow individuals to have messy ideas in their heads, that is, it does not require individuals to have their own "souls" and unify everyone's eating, drinking, sleeping, and drinking habits.
The writing style of this book is unique, the writing is concise and powerful. The authoritarian world it depicts reminds me of some of my real-life relatives and friends who have also suffered from unfreedom. The pursuit of freedom in the book resonated with me and made me cherish my current life even more. This is a thought-provoking book, recommended to you!
From the beginning, I have been lamenting how a book can have such a boring plot but such good writing...
The description technique is bold and absurd, the characters are fanatical and crazy, the colors are vivid and vivid, very much like a dream. The whole article is like talking in a dream, but it is not dreamy. The nonsensical description and strange colors are more suitable to be called the core of a dream. People are compared to clocks and skirts, and the sunrise and sunset are given sounds for contrast. The commonly used descriptions are completely abandoned, and the effect of the written words is so magical.
On the other hand, although the plot is so boring that I don't want to think about it at all, the description of kinship at the end, the protagonist who wants a biological mother - the O who wants a child to protect the child - the protagonist who protects O like the ancients protected their children, is quite interesting here, and subtly touches on the protagonist and O
People say that time heals wounds, it makes you forget everything; the laughter and tears in the past still make me feel like my heart is cut by a knife! It seems that this song, which is pure nonsense, has been sung by people very well.
The book talks about two kinds of life, one is happiness without freedom, and the other is freedom without happiness. This kind of "happiness" is obtained by giving up one's own personality, one's own differences, and one's own imagination. It is an abnormal "happiness". People can only live the same life as everyone else, living happily in an illusory way, but this kind of life is extremely dangerous and loses the goals that can be pursued and fought for, so that the people think that this way of life is correct and needs to exist for a long time, just like ignorance is power in "1984", and this is the true meaning of "us". The happiness obtained by giving up one's own personality, one's own differences, one's own imagination, and one's own struggle and pursuit can only be an illusory and empty happiness. What can be obtained in exchange can only be the so-called "fake happiness", but "we" have always followed such a "happiness". It's hard to imagine what would happen to the world when you lose your own personality, your own differences, your own imagination, and your own pursuit of struggle? What will happen to the world when there is no "I" but only "us"? We all emphasize the collective, but the collective is not a copy and paste of individuals, but is composed of living individuals. No matter when, personality and sensibility are indispensable to us. Classic works will resonate in any era. If you read them carefully, we can also draw nourishment from them and read our lives at a higher level.
I believe that there are indeed people in the world who want to create a "unified" world that does not allow individuals to have messy ideas in their heads, that is, it does not require individuals to have their own "souls" and unify everyone's eating, drinking, sleeping, and drinking habits.
The writing style of this book is unique, the writing is concise and powerful. The authoritarian world it depicts reminds me of some of my real-life relatives and friends who have also suffered from unfreedom. The pursuit of freedom in the book resonated with me and made me cherish my current life even more. This is a thought-provoking book, recommended to you!
From the beginning, I have been lamenting how a book can have such a boring plot but such good writing... The description technique is bold and absurd, the characters are fanatical and crazy, the colors are vivid and vivid, very much like a dream. The whole article is like talking in a dream, but it is not dreamy. The nonsensical description and strange colors are more suitable to be called the core of a dream. People are compared to clocks and skirts, and the sunrise and sunset are given sounds for contrast. The commonly used descriptions are completely abandoned, and the effect of the written words is so magical. On the other hand, although the plot is so boring that I don't want to think about it at all, the description of kinship at the end, the protagonist who wants a biological mother - the O who wants a child to protect the child - the protagonist who protects O like the ancients protected their children, is quite interesting here, and subtly touches on the protagonist and O
People say that time heals wounds, it makes you forget everything; the laughter and tears in the past still make me feel like my heart is cut by a knife! It seems that this song, which is pure nonsense, has been sung by people very well.