Ловец человеков

by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Иванович Замятин

Повесть Евгения Ивановича Замятина (1884—1937), впервые опубликованная в 1918 году. «Самое прекрасное в жизни — бред, и самый прекрасный бред — влюбленность. В утреннем, смутном, как влюбленность, тумане — Лондон бредил. Розово-молочный, зажмурясь, Лондон плыл — все равно куда. Легкие колонны друидских храмов — вчера еще заводские трубы. Воздушно-чугунные дуги виадуков: мосты с неведомого острова на неведомый остров. Выгнутые шеи допотопно огромных черных лебедей-кранов: сейчас нырнут за добычей на дно. Вспугнутые, выплеснулись к солнцу звонкие золотые буквы: «Роллс-ройс, авто» — и потухли. Опять — тихим, смутным кругом: кружево затонувших башен, колыхающаяся паутина проволок, м&

26 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1921

About the author

Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian: Евгений Замятин, sometimes also seen spelled Eugene Zamiatin) Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). The book was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was rehabilitated. In the English-speaking world We has appeared in several translations.

"And then, just the way it was this morning in the hangar, I saw again, as though right then for the first time in my life, I saw everything: the unalterably straight streets, the sparkling glass of the sidewalks, the divine parallelepipeds of the transparent dwellings, the squared harmony of our gray-blue ranks. And so I felt that I - not generations of people, but I myself - I had conquered the old God and the old life, I myself had created all this, and I'm like a tower, I'm afraid to move my elbow for fear of shattering the walls, the cupolas, the machines..." (from We, trans. by Clarence Brown)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born in the provincial town of Lebedian, some two hundred miles south of Moscow. His father was an Orthodox priest and schoolmaster, and his mother a musician. He attended Progymnasium in Lebedian and gymnasium in Voronezh. From 1902 to 1908 he studied naval engineering at St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. While still a student, he joined the Bolshevik Party. In 1905 he made a study trip in the Near East. Due to his revolutionary activities Zamyatin was arrested in 1905 and exiled. His first short story, 'Odin' (1908), was drew on his experiences in prison.
Zamyatin applied to Stalin for permission to emigrate in 1931 and lived in Paris until his death.

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[Morning Star · Rating 5 out of 5]

Плакала в конце от счастья.
Мой любимый волшебник.

[Саша Попов · Rating 3 out of 5]

Приелся термоядерный слог, но задумка забавная