They by Kay Dick

Review

Vision?  Prophecy?

About the future?  About the present?

Simple words, sentences.

The lyric, the complexity and beauty of the thoughts are gone.

They tell us what we can think of, what is the law and what is the society.

Only we have responsibilities.

Only their society exists.  Our society is a thing of the past.

The individual is dangerous, a source of disease, of infection. The community is good where everything is the same, safe, conform.

The writer’s vision for the dystopian future in 1977, which has now become a sad reality.  Simple, stripped-down words come together into a mosaic-like image that amplifies fear, terror.  In 1977, she could only have imagined how this terror would come to fruition, but today we can clearly see the new ideas and isms by which this dystopia is created.  We still have an ideal, beautiful picture of how to live our lives in a beautiful, meaningful way, but the development of the global state, the Western culture, the social media dictatorially gray it out and conform it.

The language of the book is simple, yet difficult to understand, and almost allegorically fits the content.  Behind the pictures of the seemingly idyllic life there is fear and dread.

In the book, the figures of terror are not filled with life, they form a dark, shapeless mass, so in fact, everyone can fill them with their own thoughts and fears.  That is why the book can become a dark dystopian reality of the present, and within that, of every individual.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this great book.  I hope it opens the eyes of many people and helps them understand the processes that govern our current world.