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  • 1984 by George Orwell was strongly inspired by We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin. He was a former Bolshevik who grew disillusioned with authoritarianism, was critiquing the nascent Soviet bureaucracy, the philosophy of Taylorism, and the loss of individual imagination and soul in a collectivist project. He was warning against the trajectory of the revolution.

    We is a modernist novel. It is fragmented, philosophical, and heavily reliant on symbolism and stream of consciousness. I would suggest to read We by Zamyatin, to the readers who prefer modernist complexity over narrative accessibility.

    We contains a more pervasive and psychologically intense exploration of sexuality, which is essential to the protagonist’s philosophical unraveling.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)






  • Some books that could partially fit:

    • In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert a boy loves a woman who is already married
    • In Anna Karenina by Levy Tolstoy a married woman falls in love with a young man
    • In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a man loves a married woman
    • In The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, a poor boy likes a rich girl, but the father of the girl does not agree, but they end up together
    • In The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, the boy wants to marry the girl, but a very rich and powerful man is in love with the girl and want to marry her too
    • In The End of the Affair by Graham Green, both the man and the woman are with someone else and they end up together
    • In Twilight by Stephenie Meyer there is a teenage love triangle with warewolves and vampires