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Your search for information on Evgeny Zamyatin and his novel We (My) can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Use the Library Catalog to find books by and about Evgeny Zamyatin and his work. You can search by author, title, subject, or keyword. For books by Zamyatin, choose Author Search. Find biographical and critical material by doing a Subject Search for:

Please note that different translators have spelled his last name in the following ways:

Note also that his first name has been spelled in the following ways:

Our catalog uses the Library of Congress spelling Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich, but the various reference books and databases may use one of the variations given above.

Reference Books

Listed below are some Reference Books that may be useful in your research. Literary Reference books contain biographical and critical information on authors and their work. The online database GaleNet Literature Resource Center can also be used for this purpose.

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online indexes listed below. They are available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html. Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books. The Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

Search terms:

Zamyatin, Yevgeny

dystopias

dystopias in literature

Search terms:

Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich

dystopias in literature

Searches:

Author: Zamyatin

Exact title: We

Advanced: Zamyatin (select author) AND

dystopia (select fulltext)

See Library Internet Resources for a complete description of our online resources.

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Evgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin - Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers
http://www.sovlit.com/bios/zamyatin.html

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