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Swedish
345 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Karin Boye
95 books262 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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April 26, 2026
Paulina Helgeson har gjort urvalet och boken är ju så fin.
Närmare Karin Boye kommer man aldrig.
Hjalmar Gullberg skrev ju beredskapsdikten "Död amazon" som
alla kan.
Men mer innerlig är Ebbe Lindes dikt som gör mig tårögd
var gång jag läser den.
Ebbe Linde var en god vän till Karin Boye.
Brevboken ger oxå en bild av Boyes handstil.
Välskrivning var ju ett skolämne förr.
Hon skriver lika vackert som Strindberg.
Om Du förstår hur jag menar.
Närmare Karin Boye kommer man aldrig.
Hjalmar Gullberg skrev ju beredskapsdikten "Död amazon" som
alla kan.
Men mer innerlig är Ebbe Lindes dikt som gör mig tårögd
var gång jag läser den.
Ebbe Linde var en god vän till Karin Boye.
Brevboken ger oxå en bild av Boyes handstil.
Välskrivning var ju ett skolämne förr.
Hon skriver lika vackert som Strindberg.
Om Du förstår hur jag menar.
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