Kallocain (Library of World Fiction) - Softcover

University Of Wisconsin Press

 
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Synopsis

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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About the Author

Karin Boye (1900-1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist whose suicide in 1941 amid the shambles of a war-racked Europe reflects the fate of a whole generation of writers. Her first novel, Astarte, appeared in 1931.

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ISBN 10:  0299038912 ISBN 13:  9780299038915
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1966
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