The Dissident of Every Era: Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, the “heretic” of every era, the opponent of every opinion, the critic of the literature he was passionate about, and the writer of political satire, was born in 1884 in Lebedyan, then part of the Russian Empire. Zamyatin, who took his place in the literary world with his contributions and oppositional stance, had a universal resonance with his literary power. Leaving a literary legacy with his contributions to dystopian literature and criticism of totalitarianism, Zamyatin has produced works that deeply penetrated the political and social structures of his time with his ideological stance. The aim of this review is to show that Zamyatin, as a representative of an attitude that opposes uniformization, obedience and the suppression of creative thought, is the critical voice of every era and the opponent of every era. The significance of the research is that it presents a biography of Zamyatin with the help of his autobiographies and in this sense contributes to the national literature. The technique of this study, in which we will explore the author’s expressions and ideas to see his position and oppositional stance, has been determined as content analysis. In order to support the study, other sources on Zamyatin’s life have been consulted and the narrative has been deepened by referring to Zamyatin’s own statements.
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