Title: Karel Čapek
First published: 1998
Description: "Karel Capek is the most important, most versatile, but also the most neglected Czech writer in the twentieth century. The plays R.U.R. and "From the Life of Insects" created a sensation in London in the 1920s; his word "robot" was introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary. Capek's other plays - as well as novels, short stories, essays, travelogues and causeries - followed in English translations in quick succession until cultural links were broken off by the war."--BOOK JACKET. "Because of his liberal, anti-war views Capek's works were blacklisted by the Nazis occupying his homeland, as well as later by the communists. Presenting a study of all genres Capek used, B.R.B's book pays the debt history owes to Capek."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Capek, karel, 1890-1938
People: Karel Čapek (1890-1938)