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Каллокаин
В Мировом Государстве, в Химиогороде № 4, где для осуществления тотального контроля за людьми ведется постоянное наблюдение и прослушка, а доносы являются долгом каждого порядочного бойца, живет талантливый химик Лео Калль. Он создает сыворотку правды под названием «каллокаин». Открытием заинтересовывается амбициозный шеф полиции Каррек, ведь благодаря препарату можно будет узнать преступные тайны и замыслы жителей Государства. Бойцу Каллю, истинному патриоту, предстоит многое узнать и об окружающих людях, и о самом себе…
224 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2024
About the author
Karin Boye
90 books244 followersKarin Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.
She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
Boye died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-pills after leaving home on April 23, 1941.
She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
Boye died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-pills after leaving home on April 23, 1941.
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