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Fiction

大手術

人から「空想する力」を外科手術で取り除く、国家の最終計画。想像しなくなった人間は、二度と体制を疑わない。

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We Yevgeny Zamyatin / 1924

OneState, where every citizen is called by a number rather than a name and lives in rooms of glass, on a fixed timetable. A portrait of a world that has cast out private feeling and freedom as “irrational” — a wellspring of twentieth-century dystopian fiction.