We (Zamyatin, Zilboorg translation)

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

For works with similar titles, see We.

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We

 

Contents

Page

Introduction

v

Foreword

xiii

Thirty-Five Years Later

xix

Preface

xxi

Record

1.

An Announcement—The Wisest of Lines—A Poem

3

2.

Ballet—Square Harmony—X

5

3.

A Coat—A Wall—The Tables

11

4.

The Wild Man with a Barometer—Epilepsy—If

16

5.

The Square—The Rules of the World—An Agreeable and Useful Function

21

6.

An Accident—The Cursed “It’s Clear”—Twenty-Four Hours

24

7.

An Eyelash—Taylor—Henbane and Lily of the Valley

31

8.

An Irrational Root—R-13—The Triangle

37

9.

Liturgy—Iambus—The Cast-Iron Hand

43

10.

A Letter—A Membrane—Hairy I

48

11.

No, I Can’t; Let It Be Without Headings!

57

12.

The Delimitation of the Infinite—Angel—Meditations on Poetry

62

13.

Fog—Thou—A Decidedly Absurd Adventure

67

14.

“Mine”—Impossible—A Cold Floor

73

15.

The Bell—The Mirrorlike Sea—I Am to Burn Eternally

76

16.

Yellow—A Two-Dimensional Shadow—An Incurable Soul

81

17.

Through Glass—I Died—The Corridor

88

18.

Debris of Logic—Wounds and Plaster—Never Again

95

19.

The Infinitesimal of the Third Order—From Under the Forehead—Over the Railing

102

20.

Discharge—The Material of an Idea—The Zero Rock

108

21.

The Duty of an Author—The Ice Swells—The Most Difficult Love

112

22.

The Benumbed Waves—Everything Is Improving—I am a Microbe

118

23.

Flowers—The Dissolution of a Crystal—If Only (?)

122

24.

The Limit of the Function—Easter—To Cross Out Everything

127

25.

The Descent from Heaven—The Greatest Catastrophe in History—The Known—Is Ended

131

26.

The World Does Exist—Rash—Forty-One Degrees Centigrade

138

27.

No Headings. It Is Impossible!

142

28.

Both of Them—Entropy and Energy—The Opaque Part of the Body

149

29.

Threads on the Face—Sprouts—An Unnatural Compression

158

30.

The Last Number—Galileo’s Mistake—Would It Not Be Better?

161

31.

The Great Operation—I Forgave Everything— The Collision of Trains

165

32.

I Do Not Believe—Tractors—A Little Human Splinter

173

33.

This Without a Synopsis, Hastily, the Last

180

34.

The Forgiven Ones—A Sunny Night—A Radio-Valkyrie

182

35.

In a Ring—A Carrot—A Murder

191

36.

Empty Pages—The Christian God—About My Mother

198

37.

Infusorian—Doomsday—Her Room

203

38.

I Don’t Know What Title—Perhaps the Whole Synopsis May Be Called A Castoff Cigarette Butt

208

39.

The End

211

40.

Facts—The Bell—I Am Certain

217