Original sentence: We, set in the 33rd century, is related by the protagonist, D-503 in a diary, which details both his work as a mathematician and constructor of the space-ship Integral, and his misadventures with a resistance group called the Mephi, an obvious reference to  Mephistopheles , one of the many allusions in the novel
Edited sentence: We, set in the 33rd century, is related by the protagonist, D-503 in a diary, which details both his work as a mathematician and constructor of the space-ship Integral, and his misadventures with a resistance group called the Mephi, an obvious reference to  Mephistopheles, one of the many allusions in the novel