ABSTRACT
Zamyatin is unique among Russian writers—pro-phetic to mind of something literature has still to attain. For besides being a gifted and imaginative artist, he is a trained man of science. Being a man of intellect, however, and moreover a man of scientific intellect, Zamyatin’s conception of literature is a large one, and not at all consonant with the view that all ultimate wisdom resides in the secretariat of a political party. The best proof that Zamyatin has written nothing anti-Soviet or counter-revolutionary, lies in the fact that in 1929 a Moscow publishing house began the publication of his complete works. Heretics are the sole (bitter) medicine against the entropy of human thought.’ These phrases conceal the writer’s unbelief and non-acceptance of the social revolution”.
