A Provincial Tale

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author whose novel We, written in 1920 but banned in the Soviet Union, was the direct inspiration for both Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. His dystopian vision of a totalitarian future state ruled entirely by mathematical logic is one of the most prescient works in all of literature. He died in exile in Paris.