作者簡介
薩米爾欽(Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1884-1937)
一八八四年生於俄羅斯中部的的黎 貝迪安鎮。一九○二年進人彼得堡理工學院攻讀造船工程學,經歷了 1905 年和 1917 年的俄國革命,曾被捕而流放。一九一六年到一九一七年在泰恩河的造船廠工作,讓他對於大規模勞動的合理性產生質疑,這成為日後寫出《我們》的契機。薩米爾 欽於一九三一年移民巴黎,直到一九三七年逝世。
《我們》是薩米爾欽的代表作,於一九二○至二一年間寫成的一書,一開始僅以手抄本形式在俄 國內部流傳,一九二四年流出國外出版英、法、捷克文等版本,一九二九年在國外出版俄文版,儘管未在蘇聯出版,薩米爾欽仍遭到蘇聯主流文學界的批判,在蘇聯 的文學界無法立足的薩米爾欽流亡歐洲定居巴黎,卻再也沒寫出超越《我們》的作品。《我們》在蘇聯則一直到一九八八年才正式解禁出版。另著有《省城紀事》、
《穴居人》等小說。
Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in 1884. He was arrested as a student in 1905 by Tsarist police for being a Bolshevik. He was then sent to England to work on Russian ice breakers in Newcastle. He
has been described as a 'dapper, tweedy naval engineer'. He was also a fan of H.G. Wells . After the revolution in 1917 he returned to Russia and worked for Gorky. He was arrested again by the
Soviet authorities in 1919 and 1922 and forbidden to publish his work. In 1931 Stalin surprisingly granted him permission to move to Paris. He died there in March, 1937.