Kallocain
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780299038946 (0299038947)
Publish date: April 22nd 2002
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Pages no: 220
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Dystopia,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature
First published in 1940, Boye creates an uncanny and throughout above-average dystopian novel in which the protagonist Leo Kall invents the drug Kallocain, which, once injected, forces you to say the truth for eight minutes straight while being fully conscious and aware of it – all of this in a tota...
Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister.Varför skulle annars våren tveka?Varför skulle all vår heta längtanbindas i det frusna bitterbleka?Höljet var ju knoppen hela vintern.Vad är det för nytt, som tär och spränger?Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister,ont för det som växeroch det som stänger.N...
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