Kallocain
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The classic 1940 Swedish dystopian novel Kallocain envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain's depiction of a totalitarian world state is a montage of what novelist Karin Boye had seen or sensed in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany of the 1930s.
Its central idea grew from the rumors of truth drugs that ensured the subservience of every citizen to the state.
Kallocain has been translated in to more than 10 languages, and was adapted into a television miniseries in 1981 by Hans Abramson.
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