Karin Boye

Kallocain

Swedish dystopian novel depicting totalitarian surveillance and psychological control

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Karin Boye
Karin Boye

Swedish poet and novelist who took her own life at 40 but left a body of lyrical, searching verse and the dystopian novel Kallocain. Her poem Ja, visst gor det ont (Of Course It Hurts) is beloved in Sweden.

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