How then could these thoughts and feelings belong to the individual? Doesn’t the whole fellow-soldier belong to the state? To whom should his thoughts and feelings belong then, if not to the state?” As the first-person record of Leo Kall, scientist, fellow-soldier too late disillusioned to undo his previous actions, Kallocain achieves a chilling power and veracity that place it among the finest novels to emerge from the strife-torn Europe of the twentieth century. Kall has invented a drug, kallocain, which denies the privacy of thought and is the final step towards the transmutation of the individual human being into a “happy, healthy cell in the state organism.” For, says Leo, “from thoughts and feelings, words and actions are born. Boye wrote this book in 1940 (eight years before Orwell’s 1984) and at that point there were no known truth-inducing drugs, which also makes it groundbreaking. However, internationally she is best known for her novel, Kallocain. 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. Seen through the eyes of the idealistic scientist. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. Karin Boye was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1900, where she is renowned as a poet. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff. Kallocain is a 1940 dystopian novel by Swedish novelist Karin Boye that envisions a future of drab terror. This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror.

Of international class, wrote Artur Lundkvist and Karl Ragnar Gierow did not hesitate to call it a significant and lasting work of art. You can read this before Kallocain PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Kallocain, which appeared in the fall of 1940, was immediately greeted as the finest of Karin Boye’s novels. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Kallocain written by Karin Boye which was published in 1940–. Brief Summary of Book: Kallocain by Karin Boye