Within this state one is either a soldier, a policeman, or an elitein descending order of likelihoodand all things that do not serve the state or the war effort are suspect. 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. Kallocain is set in a future of the same drab ugliness as 1984, a Worldstate that is one of several equally monolithic and mutually hostile power blocs.

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. Ironic and detached, the author shows us the totalitarian World-state through the eyes of a product of that state, scientist Leo Kall. This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. You can read this before Kallocain PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Kallocain är en mörk skildring av ett samhälle där individen bara är ett kugghjul, viktig förvisso, men lätt att byta ut om det blir något fel på det. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Kallocain written by Karin Boye which was published in 1940–.

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