The classic dystopian novel from Sweden, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Karin Boye (1900-41), born in Sweden, was a poet and anti-Fascist
who translated The Waste Land 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, Kallocain (1940), was partly inspired by eye-opening
trips to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Boye committed suicide the
year after writing the novel.
David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The
Idiot, and Babel's short stories.
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