2008 books

[peteyoung]

Comments

[akicif]

and one wishes Russian and Chinese literature could have come up with equally potent fables of their own
There's always Zamyatin's We....

[peteyoung]

...which was one of Eric Blair's inspirations. I've read it, it's good. Didn't stop Stalin, unfortunately.

[kateorman]

I've just read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I have just learned spent eight years in a labour camp after criticising Stalin in a letter to a friend - which may go some way to explaining why Russian writers didn't produce a 1984!