Editing Yevgeny Zamyatin (section)

==Life in exile==
After their emigration, Zamyatin and his wife settled in [[Paris]]. According to Mirra Ginsburg: "Zamyatin's last years in Paris were years of great material hardship and loneliness. As Remizov wrote, 'He came with sealed lips and a sealed heart.' He found little in common with most of [[White émigré|the emigrés]] who had left Russia a decade earlier."<ref>Yevgeny Zamyatin (1967), ''The Dragon: Fifteen Stories'', translated by Mirra Ginsburg. [[University of Chicago]] Press. p. x.</ref>

The screenplay for [[Jean Renoir]]'s ''[[The Lower Depths (1936 film)|The Lower Depths]]'' (1936) from [[Maxim Gorky]]'s [[The Lower Depths|stage play]] was co-written by Zamyatin.

Zamyatin later wrote: "Gorky was informed of this, and wrote that he was pleased at my participation in the project, that he would like to see the adaptation of his play, and would wait to receive the manuscript. The manuscript was never sent: by the time it was ready for mailing, Gorky was dead."<ref>Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), ''A Soviet Heretic: Essays'' Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, p. 258.</ref> After the film premiered, Zamyatin wrote articles for French magazines and worked on a novel titled ''The Scourge of God'', with [[Attila]] as the main character. The novel was never finished.<ref>Yevgeny Zamyatin (1967), ''The Dragon: Fifteen Stories'', translated by Mirra Ginsburg. [[University of Chicago]] Press. pp. ''x-xi''.</ref>