A landmark novel from which the official existence of the genre “anti-utopia” is counted. Banned during the Soviet period, it is now considered one of the classics not only of Russian but also of 20th-century world literature. A novel about an “equal society,” in which the human individual is reduced to a “number.” Everything is standardized—clothes and apartments, thoughts and feelings. There is no family, no lasting attachments…
But can you eradicate a person’s desire for freedom while they are still human?