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? 
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.

Kallocain

Literature & Fiction

Boye, Karin

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

The classic World War II-era dystopian novel, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and 1984, in its first new translation in more than fifty years A Penguin Classic 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? Written as the terrible events of World War II were unfolding, Karin Boye's classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance.

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.

Literary

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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.

Contemporary

University of Wisconsin Press

Karin Boye nos abre el corazón de su poesía limpiamente, con ternura y profundo desgarro. Estos Poemas Selectos han sido seleccionados y traducidos por Roberto Mascaró con la siguiente premisa: Karin nos presenta rota en dos partes su poesía. Dos modos de proponer el texto poético, dos modos de interpretar la realidad. Leer sus versos es empezar muy despacio a descubrirla, luego, no dará tregua con su voz estrepitosa. Karin Boye novelista, traductora y, sobre todo, poeta. Mujer comprometida políticamente con el socialismo y adelantada a su tiempo en el abordaje de temáticas comprometidas con la deshumanización que causan las guerras. Hay aquí una secuencia poética sencilla en la construcción de los versos, atengámonos a la delicada traducción de Mascaró, pero una fuerza poderosa filosófica y estética en el mensaje que transmite. Hace un uso hábil y transparente de su emoción al escribir. Boye se anuncia a sí misma: su juego de conceptos vida-muerte se avista con bastante claridad. Luego más adelante lo hará con otros conceptos, pero siempre en oposición, lo que vuelve su poesía reflexiva y misteriosa y reflejo de su lucha y crisis existencial histórica y personal. La rotura de la poesía en Boye está claramente especificada en la necesidad de expresar a en la estética de la muerte el control de la realidad a través de ese anhelo. Boye debe llegar como todo en su vida HASTA EL FONDO DE LAS COSAS. Ella es sin ambages, pura y cristalina, no como otra poeta suicida, sino como la mujer rota, humana y conocedora de su historia. Vida y muerte, lucha y libertad, así es la poesía de Karin Boye. Lya Ayala Poeta Salvadoreña

Poemas Selectos (Coleccion Edda) (Spanish Edition)

Poetry

Editorial del Gabo

Leo Kall invents a powerful truth serum which enables a totalitarian government absolute control over its citizens, but eventually has second thoughts about the serum and attempts to flee

Kallo Cain (English and Swedish Edition)

Fromm Intl

La klasika sveda distopio, verkita en la sama tradicio kiel "Ni" de Zamja

Kallokaino (Esperanto Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

lulu.com

Complete Poems

History & Criticism

Bloodaxe Books

Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers' college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith, Malin plunges into a depression and a paralysis of will. Oscillating between poetic prose, social realism, fragments of correspondence, and imagined dialogues between the forces of nature, Crisis telescopes Malin's distress out into metaphysical planes and back, as her mind stages struggles between black and white, Dionysian and Apollonian, and with an everyday existence that has become unbearably arduous. And then an intense infatuation with a classmate reorients everything.

Crisis (B)

Erotica

Norvik Press

Kallocain: Roman

btb Verlag

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Kallocain

Kallocain

Kallocain

Kallocain

Poemas Selectos (Coleccion Edda) (Spanish Edition)

Kallo Cain (English and Swedish Edition)

Kallokaino (Esperanto Edition)

Complete Poems

Crisis (B)

Kallocain: Roman