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reviewed Kallocain by Karin Boye

Karin Boye: Kallocain (Swedish language, 1941, Trut Publishing) 5 stars

Swedish cousin of Brave New World, authored by a lesbian poet in 1940s Sweden

5 stars

finished reading kallocain during lunch, it has such luscious sentences

it feels like a poem wearing the guise of a novel. the first time i tried to read it, i read like i would any other novel. but for me, it only revealed itself, and was frankly only understandable, when taking the pace down a few notches

i don't know what translation keeps the dreamy poetry of its sentences intact; you could always learn swedish