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

Karin Boye
Paperback | Pages: 193 pages Rating: 3.8 | 5676 Users | 331 Reviews
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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 |
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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.Rating Containing Books Kallocain
Ratings: 3.8 From 5676 Users | 331 ReviewsComment On Containing Books Kallocain
The fascinating Kallocain, the last novel by famous author and poet Karin Boye and published not 6 months prior to her tragic suicide in 1941. Well deserving of it's mention along with 'the great dystopies'; We, Brave New World, 1984 and This Perfect Day (yes, Ira Levin belongs there too!). Leo Kall creates the drug Kallocain after noting that people tend to reveal their inner thoughts following the intake of alcohol. Kallocain is much more effective and a great tool for the ones in power andOnce i have read Kallokain ,for me there are three absolute totalitarian distopian materpiece novels : We,Kallokain and 1984,the other two : Farenheith 451 and A brave new world dont fall in the same class.In the first three the life, the thougths,the sons and daughters are absolute property of the state.Paradoxically this regímenes in the theorical apareance of all be for the good of the comunity,the state,are the most insolidarian and individualistic societies,the individual is the most
4.5Actually even scarier than 1984.

Leo Kall wakes up one morning to read the newspaper and the headlines say "Thoughts Can be Judged." Well, Leo already knows this, having invented a drug which he named after himself: Kallocain. Early in his career as a scientist for the Worldstate, a totalitarian regime, Kall realized that when people become intoxicated they tend to spill their guts to total strangers. Working from that idea, he develops Kallocain, and after a few subjects from the Voluntary Sacrificial Service are injected with
You know the feeling when you read something you know is good, I mean not just because others have told you so but because you can actually feel it when you read the book? You read on and you still get the feeling that this is a good book......and yet you don't particularly care for it. This was such a book for me. I can understand why it's a classic, well known, and I'm glad that I've read it. But still my feelings for it are no more than lukewarm.
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
4.5Actually even scarier than 1984.
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