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Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin's 'We'. By BRETT COOKE. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UniversityPress. 2002. ix + 221 pp. 59.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-810-11873-4.
In his new study of Zamiatin's We, Brett Cooke addresses through the prism of what he terms 'biopoetics' the novel's central concern, the human spirit's indomitable resistance to totalitarian ideology, and the manifestation of that spirit in the creation of art. Rationalizing utopian systems deny mankind's essential spirit, which can be defined according to sociobiology or evolutionary psychology as a dystopian impulse towards spontaneous...
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