Zamyatin
Proper noun
Meaning
Zamyatin
A transliteration of the Russian surname Замятин (Zamjatin).
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884–1937), Russian author of science fiction and political satire
Examples
Merle and Deena Puffer, 1965) * Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 (screenplay based on Gorky's play) – Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin (as E. Zamiatine), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.
In his 1921 essay "I Am Afraid," Zamyatin wrote: "True literature can only exist when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics."
On the other hand, hundreds of intellectuals, writers, and artists were exiled or executed, and their work banned, for example Nikolay Gumilyov (shot for alleged conspiring against the Bolshevik regime) and Yevgeny Zamyatin (banned).
Yevgeny Zamyatin died in poverty of a heart attack in 1937.
In this letter Zamyatin wrote, "I do not wish to conceal that the basic reason for my request for permission to go abroad with my wife is my hopeless position here as a writer, the death sentence that has been pronounced upon me as a writer here at home."
Then, in 1927, Zamyatin went much further.