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Resedagbok i Grekland
102 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1994
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Karin Boye
90 books246 followersKarin Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.
She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
Boye died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-pills after leaving home on April 23, 1941.
She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
Boye died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-pills after leaving home on April 23, 1941.
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August 3, 2024
Intressant att följa Karin Boyes resa genom hennes resedagbok. Det går inte annat än att slås av hur resandet i vissa avseenden har förändrats medan det i andra är lika.
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