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Karin Boye

Issue #0

Kallocain

University of Wisconsin Press (2 Apr 2002)

9780299038946

| Trade Paperback

228 pages | 152 x 229 mm | English

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Dewey 839.7372

Genre

Fiction

Subject

Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Scientists

Plot

This classic Swedish novel envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain's depiction of a totalitarian world state is a montage of what novelist Karin Boye had seen or sensed in 1930s Russia and Germany. Its central idea grew from the rumors of truth drugs that ensured the subservience of every citizen to the state.