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Title	:	Kallocain
Author	:	Karin Boye
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 193 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 2002 by University of Wisconsin Press (first published 1940)
Categories	:	Classics. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fiction. European Literature. Swedish Literature

Kallocain

Karin Boye

Paperback | Pages: 193 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 5676 Users | 331 Reviews

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This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. 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. 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.

Present Books As Kallocain

Original Title:	Kallocain
ISBN:	0299038947 (ISBN13: 9780299038946)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Leo Kall
Literary Awards:	Retro Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)

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Ratings: 3.8 From 5676 Users | 331 Reviews

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This book is best seem as a part of dystopian quartet from the first half of the XXth century, the others are: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, brave new world by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. The novel was nominated for the Retro-Hugo for 1940.The novel depicts a totalitarian society where the protagonist developed a truth serum (Kallocain), which allows to take oppression to a new level to judge the very thought and intentions of people. The story does a great job in showing the

The book is set in a future, dystopian, totalitarian world state, after a World War. The government surveillance, with eyes and ears, reaches everywhere. Even the maids are bound to report every week about the family at which they work. The main protagonist, Leo Kall, is a dutiful citizen, accepting the rules of the society. He even invents a truth serum, Kallocain, to increase the government's control over the people, making the world state the owner of not only the peoples' identities, but

I don't know how famous Kallocain or Karin Boye are outside Sweden, but she's pretty much one of our most renowned authors. I actually read this book back in 2007, but today at the flea market I just so happened upon a FREAKIN' ORIGINAL COPY FROM 1940 AND BOUGHT IT FOR FIVE FREAKIN' CROWNS! IT'S AMAZING AND SO FRAGILE AND THE PAGES A BLOODY HAND-CUT AND I LOVE IIIT!*Ahem*Excuse me for that.So anyway! Kallocain is a dystopian part-scifi about the chemist Leo Kall, who invents the first ever

I have always been interested in Karin Boye, she's famous in Sweden mostly for her poems. I found Kallocain in a thrift store by chance, and decided to pick it up. It's rich in its language, beautiful in it's storytelling. The world that she describes is frightening, as it should be - being a dystopian. It's frightening, and even more so, the character of Leo Kall - a typical/average man living in this society. His journey, his growth, is fascinating to follow, and it made an impact. It's so

I have heard a lot about this book and I never really wanted to read it but when I found it as a Swedish e-book when I needed something "new" after finishing some good fantasy books...I found the book a bit (very) rambling, but still interesting and it was mainly about thoughts and feelings you are not supposed to have in the all powerful World State.

Kallocain is a Swedish classic (written in 1940), dealing with themes of love and sense of self and the meaning of life, in a totalitarian state. Everytime I read certain kind of dystopias, I get a sense of unease at how poignant a lot of them still are. Kallocain takes place in a totalitarian state, much like 1984 does, although Kallocain predates the latter, and a lot of the surveillance in it, that probably seemed outlandish and outrageous when it was written, is commonplace today.

This poetic and moving novel deserves to be remembered in the same breath as We, 1984, Brave New World, and other great twentieth-century dystopias. Leo Kall is a scientist who employs chemistry in the service of the oppressive Worldstate. He develops kallocain, a drug that exposes the private thoughts of his fellow-soldiers, thus paving the way for the Worldstate to ensure that either each individual becomes a "happy, healthy cell in the state organism" or he/she is eliminated. To quote Leo's