Kallocain by Karin Boye (English) Paperback Book

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Leo Kall is a zealous middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can finally be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted with Kallocain? For that matter, can Kall himself be trusted?

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The classic dystopian novel from Sweden, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-FourLeo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery- a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can finally be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted with Kallocain? For that matter - can Kall himself be trusted?Written as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Karin Boye's classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence, and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.

Author Biography

Karin Boye (1900-41), born in Sweden, was a poet and anti-Fascist who translated The Waste Land into Swedish. After undergoing psychoanalysis in Berlin, she left her husband and formed a lifelong relationship with another woman, Margot Hanel. Her most famous book, Kallocain (1940), was partly inspired by eye-opening trips to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Boye committed suicide the year after writing the novel.David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel's short stories.

Review

The woman who reimagined the dystopian novel -- Talya Zax * The New Yorker *

Details ISBN0241608309 Author David McDuff Pages 192 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0241608309 ISBN-13 9780241608302 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-06-06 Imprint Penguin Classics Translated from Swedish US Release Date 2023-06-06 UK Release Date 2023-06-06 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 839.7372 Audience General Translator David McDuff NZ Release Date 2023-09-04 AU Release Date 2023-09-04 Alternative 9780241355602 We've got this

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