We and 1984

[Matina]

There are many similarities and some differences in these novels.

Does anyone know what they are?

[Koa]

I have read 1984 ages ago and it's the next book I'm going to read, once I've finished what I'm reading.
We is the next Russian book I'm going to start but it might take ages to read it...

So I still don't know what the similarities or differences might be.

[Bruce]

north korea is pushing towards a 1984 lifestyle right?

[yanni]

Who wrote novel "We"?
Re "1984" search the web for a Mr Bentham and his "panoptikon"

[kaka]

The author of the novel "We" was Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937). It was first published, outside the Soviet Union, in 1927.

Zamyatin and his wife were given permission to leave the USSR in 1931 and they settled in Paris. Here's the link to the Wikipedia article on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin

[yanni]

Thanks and best wishes Kaka.
The "We" could have been otherwise misunderstood, taken as other "work", still being written.
Good name, "Yevgeni".

[Alex E Art]

I wanna read 1984 and already find it in e-book :)

[genoveva]

They're both dystopian novels.

[TodHackett]

If I'm remembering them right, there are two immediate similarities that come to mind.

First, they both deal extensively with surveillance. In _1984_, it is through the use of spies and informants. In _We_, it is through transparent homes and laws that forbid locked doors.

Second, a forbidden romantic relationship is central to both works.

[Evergreenleaf]

I just finished "We" for a class, and we compared it to "1984", which I haven't read. They both deal with dystopias of a similar nature, apparently--dystopias where reason rules and individuality and emotion are diseases. Mirra Ginsburg, the one who translated "We" into English, says that it is "more multifaceted, less hopeless than Orwell's '1984'".

[Koa]

I am only at 1/3 of WE but so far many similarities have stricken me (I have read 1984 a few weeks ago), but today I was thinking that, while in 1984 the romance is absolutely positive, or so it seems to me, in WE it has something 'evil' in its mystery, and most of all in the fact that it separates the protagonist from the friends he had at the beginning (I read today the chapter when O runs away from him...and it's sad cos I really like O :D). I don't know what will be next so maybe my interpretation will change...

[PennKen2009]

I read 1984 about 4 or 5 years ago, but I havent read or heard of We. Is it good? How many pages?