Zamyatin's Reception of Wells's Fiction

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2017

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Discussions of the artistic qualities of Wells's writings allow Zamyatin to expound upon his own aesthetic program, known as "synthetism." In these discussions Zamyatin interprets Wells's work as a complex interpretation of technological modernity where the line between humans and gods is actively blurred, and traces the origins of Wellsian fiction to his predecessors, mostly English-language adventure writers.

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Wells , Novel , Philosophy

Citation

Aksenova, Natalia; and Khatyamova, Marina. “Zamyatin's Reception of Wells's Fiction.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 19.1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2779