others is to Us a Romance of Science-fiction, written in 1920 by Ievgueni Zamiatine (the USSR).

The history is told to us through the diary of a man named “D-503”, which writes with us, Hommes past, because it knows that in the future never nobody will be able to read it. Its work consists of the manufacture of a spaceship intended to convert extraterrestrial civilizations with happiness, that the State Unique claims to have discovered. D-503 forms also part of a group of resistant.

As in the majority of the Against-Utopia S, the State Unique describes in the novel is a totalitarian State, which claims to govern all the human activities (described with precision in the Table of the Hours) and to make the happiness of the men to the detriment of their individual freedoms.

This book was prohibited by Stalin; decree, then slackened, Zamiatine were then exiled with Paris in 1931.

This book inspired Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as well as an opera: " I.330" , booklet of Jean Goury, music of Jacques Bung created in 1975 with the Opera of Nantes. .

Internal bond

• anti-totalitarian Literary works