Popular European Dystopia Books

Find dystopia books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (43)


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Voyage to Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
A page-turning classic--comic, eerily timely--novel that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
We is a dystopian novel written by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Originally drafted in Russian, the book could be published only abroad. It was translated into English in 1924. Even as the book won a wide readership overseas, the author's satiric depiction led to his banishment under Joseph Stalin's regime in the then USSR. The book's depiction of life under a totalitarian state influenced the other novels of the 20th century. Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to be not perfect but inhum... continue