Kallocain by Karin Boye

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Swedens most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen EightyFour 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 middleranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But Paperback softback