Ievgueni Zamiatine (Замятин, ЕвгенийИванович, 1884 with Lebedyan, Oblast de Lipetsk, Russia - March 10th 1937 with Paris, France), sometimes called in French Eugene Zamiatine or Evgueni Zamiatine , is a Russian author.

Ievgueni Zamiatine knew well works of H.G. Wells. Its work is constantly animated by a will heretic which will be worth to him the lightnings of the censure of the governments communist tsarist then.

Its most known novel Others , caricatures Us (in 1920!) the future sinks of the USSR under the communist planning. This novel of Science-fiction is a “Dystopie”, or Against-Utopia, which inspired certainly 1984 , of George Orwell and Brave New World of Aldous Huxley.

Biography

Born from an Orthodoxe father priest , schoolmaster and a mother musician, it studies naval construction at the Institute polytechnic of Saint-Pétersbourg of 1902 to 1908 and quickly joined the Bolchevik S.

It takes part in the attempt at revolution of 1905 where it meets his wife, Lioudmila Oussova but will be stopped then assigned with residence. It will try to return clandestinely to Saint-Pétersbourg but will have to take refuge in Finland. Its writings and political actions will be worth a new exile in 1911 to him. These episodes of distance will inspire Province to him. Hardly returned with Saint-Pétersbourg after the amnesty of 1913, the publication of To the Devil vauvert is worth to him the lightnings of the censure of the Tsar and a new exile.

Provided with its diploma for the occupation of naval Engineer, it is in England in 1916 to supervise the construction of ships Brise-glace. Learning the premises from the Revolution of October, it returns from England in September 1917 and takes part with enthusiasm in the literary expansion, claiming neo-realism.

Initially Bolshevik, Zamiatine was much more critical with regard to the totalitarian dictatorship Soviet and leaves the Party in 1917, contrary to Mikhaïl Boulgakov.

Professor with the " House of Arts" by Saint-Pétersbourg, at the sides of Iouri Tynianov and Kornei Chukovsky it inspires the " Serapion" brothers; a group of young writers who, in spite of his lesson, poured little by little in conformism.

Worried by the Guépéou since 1922, its books prohibited, then shown antisovietism by a violent press campaign in 1929, it with the audacity to write with Stalin to obtain the authorization to leave the the USSR. Request accepted thanks to the support of Maxime Gorki.

It leaves the USSR in 1931 to live with Paris until its death in 1937.

Works

Novels

  • Only , 1908 - French translation editions Shores, 1990 ISBN 2869303254
  • Province , 1913 - French translation editions the Age of man, 1983
  • With the Devil vauvert , 1914 - French translation with the Verdier editions, 2006 ISBN 286432458X
  • Alatyr , 1915 - French translation with the Verdier editions, 2006 ISBN 286432458X
  • the Islanders (satire of English manners), 1917 - French translation editions the Age of man, 1983
  • North , 1918
  • Us Others (dystopie), 1920 - translated by B. Cauvet-Duhamel, Imaginary Gallimard, 1979 ISBN 2070286487
  • the Cave , 1920 - French translation with the editions the Old one of Man, 1990 ISBN 2825121053
  • Mamaï , 1920
  • the room of child , 1920
  • the Flood , 1929 - French translation editions Plaster filling, 2005 ISBN 2742755241
  • a Meeting , 1935
  • the Fisherman of men - French translation editions Shores, 1990 ISBN 2869303378
  • the Account of most important the (strange short account at the border of science fiction) - French translation editions the Age of man, 1989
  • the Plague of God (long account devoted to the youth of Attila) - French translation editions the Old one of Man (1975) ISBN 282512107X
  • Russia , - French translation editions Plaster filling, 1990 ISBN 2908024047

Theater

In the Twenties, written Zamiatine of many plays which appear less risky to him.

Opera

Zamiatine contributes to the booklet of the opera the Nose of Dimitri Chostakovitch according to Nicolas Gogol (created in 1930).

Scenario

  • It writes the scenario of Bas-fonds for Jean Renoir (1936).

Adaptations

  • Its news the Flood is used as screen with film of the same name of Igor Minayev, with in particular Isabelle Huppert, left in room in 1994.

  • the news of Zamyatin the Cellar (1922) inspired with Friedrich Ermler its film the house in snow (Домвсугробах) (1927).

Quotations

In Us Others 1920 “ the world develops only according to the heresies, according to what rejects the present, apparently inébranlable and infallible. Only the heretics discover new elements in sciences, art, the social life. Only the heretics are the eternal close life. ”

In his article I am afraid of 1921 it says this: “ I am afraid that there is not in Russia of true literature, as long as one will continue to consider the " there; démos" Russian as a child of which innocence should be preserved… But if this disease proves to be incurable, I am afraid which the Russian literature has one future: its past! ”

In its letter with Stalin: “ For me, as a writer, being private of the possibility of writing is equivalent to a death sentence. The things reached a point where it became impossible to me to follow my occupation, because the activity of creation is unthinkable if one is obliged to work in a systematic atmosphere of persecution which worsens each year ”

See too

External bonds

  • a detailed biography

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