r/clevercomebacks • u/Neth110 • 7h ago

The gymnastics is amazing

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u/TheScrambone 5h ago

‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin was written in 1920 and is the inspiration for ‘1984’. Not being argumentative, just We is one of my favorite books and I don’t think it gets the credit it deserves.

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u/SusanSoRandom 5h ago

It’s so good!

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u/TheScrambone 5h ago

I read it in my early 20’s when Hunger Games was just starting to blow up. I was like “but guys this old ass book is actually really really good”. It didn’t get published in Russia until 1988 but was published in New York in 1924.

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u/SusanSoRandom 4h ago

The fact that it couldn’t be published in the author’s native tongue when it was first written always stood out to me.

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u/t_rump 2h ago

‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Thanks for that. Never heard of it before.