Second Thoughts on the End of Utopia? Zamiatin's Film Scenario, D-503 Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractReadings of the denouement of We differ sharply, with important consequences regarding the fate of utopian social construction. Many readers claim that the Single State crushes the MEPHI revolt. Others come to precisely the opposite conclusion. A third group argues that the battle is undecided. The film scenario Zamiatin developed and translated subsequent to his 1931 exile indicates the author opted for the second verdict, one indicating the fall of the regime. Written at least a decade after the novel, the Russian language scenario and its two English translations published here may only reflect his later opinions on the heretofore ambiguous ending of his novel.

published proceedings

  • Canadian-American Slavic Studies

author list (cited authors)

  • Cooke, B.

citation count

  • 0

publication date

  • January 2011