Тоталитарни и лиминални общества в „Ние“ на Замятин
Totalitarian and Liminal Societies in Zamyatin’s “We”

Summary/Abstract: In Totalitarian and Liminal Societies in Zamyatin’s “We”, Jeanne Murray Walker draws on Arnold van Gennep's idea of liminality to examine human relations in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel “We”. According to Van Gennep, liminality is a state that is reached when a person has no social position because they are in the process of transitioning from one position to another. Such a state is dangerous for human society, but also inevitable as a person's status position and role change all the time. Zamyatin’s protagonist D-503 is forced to choose between the parody of liminality offered by the The United State and the real but illegal liminality of Mephi. But realistically, both options he can choose from are flawed, and he is left without any meaningful social exchange.

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