Kallocain
$20.80
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2023
Summary
The classic dystopian novel from Sweden, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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 tha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241608302 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241608309 |
| Author: | Karin Boye, David McDuff |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 147g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The woman who reimagined the dystopian novel – Talya Zax * The New Yorker *
About The Author
Karin Boye
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 include Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel’s short stories.
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