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Karin Boye's dystopian novel 'Kallocain', about a truth serum that eliminates private thought, was published in which year, predating George Orwell's '1984'?
Answer: 1940 — Karin Boye's 'Kallocain' (1940) imagines a totalitarian world-state where a scientist invents a serum that destroys the last private space — thought itself.
- A 1937
- B 1940 ✓
- C 1943
- D 1946
Karin Boye's 'Kallocain' (1940) imagines a totalitarian world-state where a scientist invents a serum that destroys the last private space — thought itself.