Description
| Product ID: | 9780241608302 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Kallocain |
| Authors: | Author: Karin Boye, David McDuff |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic science fiction, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Classic science fiction, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden''s most acclaimed writers |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-06-06 |
