Kallocain
6 hrs. 26 min.
Description
This is a future novel—deeply ominous in its vision of bleak horror. With irony and distance, the author shows us the totalitarian World State through the eyes of a product of that state, the scientist Leo Kall. Kall invented a drug called kallokaine, which denies the secret of thought and is the final step in turning an individual person into a “happy, healthy cell in the state’s organism.” For, as Leo says, “words and actions are born from thoughts and feelings.
But how could those thoughts and feelings belong to an individual person? Doesn’t the entire comrade belong to the state? Whose thoughts and feelings should they belong to? Then—if not the state—whose?”
But how could those thoughts and feelings belong to an individual person? Doesn’t the entire comrade belong to the state? Whose thoughts and feelings should they belong to? Then—if not the state—whose?”
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