Capa do artigo Kallocain

Kallocain

by Karin Boye
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, November of 2019 ‧
11,58€
OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
Sell ​​your book
A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers

Written 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

Kallocain

by Karin Boye

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241355589
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: November of 2019
Language: English
Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 10 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 192
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Science fiction
EAN: 9780241355589

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karin Boye

Poeta consumada e pacifista, Karin Boye (1900-1941) é um dos vultos mais destacados na literatura sueca do século XX. Publicou várias antologias poéticas, entre as quais Moln (Nuvens, 1922) e Gömda land (Terras Ocultas, 1924), e contou-se entre os fundadores da revista de vanguarda Spektrum, que apresentou T. S. Eliot e autores surrealistas aos leitores suecos. Membro do movimento Clarté, de pendor socialista e antifascista, viajou pela Europa nos anos 30, tendo visitado a União Soviética de Estaline e a Alemanha de Hitler, facto que influenciaria claramente a escrita de Kallocaína, o seu derradeiro romance. Suicidou-se em 1941, no dia em que os nazis invadiram a sua amada Grécia.

(see more)

BY THE AUTHOR

MORE ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT ALSO BOUGHT