The dystopian legal personality: the treatment of the ‘self’ in Zamiatin’s work

Abstract

This article carries out a study on the conception of the self and its legal, political role through the lens of Zamiatin’s futurist society. A critical comparison between individual freedoms and the community in such dystopia is, therefore, established. The novel We offers parallelisms and differences with the current conception, which despite being deeply rooted in the European legal tradition, gets close to the aforementioned novel in many aspects due to the influence of globalism.