Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1924)
“At the end of Record 12 in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, the narrator writes, ‘Our poets no longer soar into the Empyrean; they’ve come down to earth.'” —Contributor Conor McLean (December 30th, 2025)
Read an overview and review of Zamyatin’s We at The Fiction Addiction.
Contributed by Conor McLean (Johns Hopkins University, ’28)
Sighting Citation:
“Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1924).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. January 3, 2026. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/yevgeny-zamyatin-we-1924/.
Posted January 3, 2026