Kallocain - Penguin Classics

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writersWritten midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alienation shows the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.Translated with an introduction by David McDuff

ISBN:	9780241355589
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	28 Nov 2019
DEWEY:	839.7372
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xviii, 169
Weight:	148g
Height:	131mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	11mm

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