Karin Boye. Kallocain.(Book Review)

From: The Review of Contemporary Fiction | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Buckeye, Robert | Copyright information

Trans. Gustaf Lannestock. Intro. Richard B. Vowles. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 193 pp. Paper: $17.95.

The world is more like it is now than it ever was before, Dwight Eisenhower said late in his second term as president, and if that were less apparent when Swedish poet Karin Boye published Kallocain in 1940, shortly before her suicide, it has become more and more true with each successive publication of the novel in English in 1966, 1985, and 2002. This time Kalloca...

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