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Kallocain
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Claes Bang
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
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Leo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can finally be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted with Kallocain? For that matter - can Kall himself be trusted?
Written as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Karin Boye's classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.
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- Helen
- 21-07-21
Claes bang perfect voice loved him narrating story
Loved the book it was perfect with claes bang reading in English wish there was more I didn’t want the book to finish
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-08-23
The science of cruelty..
I admit I never heard of this author or novel before but glad I did. Very well written in the form of a memoir and reminds you a lot of George Orwell's 1984 and saddened it hasn't had the same amount of notoriety. Like most Modernist texts the retrospective/exetensial parts can at first be a bit overwhelming but the narration helps overcome this. Could listen to Claes Bang's voice all day long!
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