{"product_id":"kallocain-isbn-9780241608302","title":"Kallocain","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic World War II–era dystopian novel, written at the midpoint between \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, in its first new translation in more than fifty years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo 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 World War II were unfolding, Karin Boye’s classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“Thrilling . . . [It] mesmerizes. . . . Relationships are the true heart of \u003ci\u003eKallocain\u003c\/i\u003e: how intimacies shape us, how the presence of difference can free us, and how what is freely given between people is always so much more powerful and real than what is taken by force.” —\u003cb\u003eIlana Masad, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The world of the Swedish writer Karin Boye’s little-known 1940 novel, \u003ci\u003eKallocain\u003c\/i\u003e, is a close cousin to those depicted in \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . The women characters in many classic twentieth-century dystopias tend to be flat, mere foils to male protagonists. But in \u003ci\u003eKallocain\u003c\/i\u003e it is the inner lives of women that come to illustrate both the state’s power over its citizens and their own power to resist.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating novel of the \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e genre.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarin Boye \u003c\/b\u003e(1900–1941) was a Swedish poet and anti-fascist who translated \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e into Swedish. After undergoing psychoanalysis in Berlin, she left her husband and formed a lifelong relationship with another woman, Margot Hanel. Her most famous book, \u003ci\u003eKallocain\u003c\/i\u003e, was partly inspired by eye-opening trips to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Boye died by suicide the year after writing it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff \u003c\/b\u003e(translation and introduction) is the translator of the Penguin Classics editions of Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Isaac Babel's short stories.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305407205605,"sku":"NP9780241608302","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241608302.jpg?v=1767730622","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/kallocain-isbn-9780241608302","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}