Description
Kallocain is a future vision of a police-controlled and militarized surveillance society. With his truth drug, chemist Leo Kall has found a way into the citizens' souls. It turns out that most harbor dreams of rebellion against the World State and a desire for the Desert City - a distant place of freedom and love. Leo Kall himself begins to doubt the State and question his role as a loyal fellow soldier.
With Kallocain, Karin Boye has painted a 1984, almost a decade before George Orwell. An eerie dystopia, but at the same time a belief in man's ability to create another, living world.
