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R.U.R. and The Insect Play
Josef Capek
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Description for R.U.R. and The Insect Play
Paperback. Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. After the success of R.U.R. (Rossums' Universal Robots, 1920), the brothers collaborated in their best-known work, The Insect Play (1921). Both plays reflect the world in which the Capeks lived and give a commentary on its grosser follies. Translator(s): Selver, P. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 214.
Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother in composing sketches, stories, and plays, as well as writing two short novels of his own and critical essays in which he defended the art of the unconscious, of children, and of savages. Following Hitler's invasion of 1939, Josef Capek was sent to a German concentration camp. He died at Belsen in April 1945. Karel Capek became a journalist ... Read more
Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother in composing sketches, stories, and plays, as well as writing two short novels of his own and critical essays in which he defended the art of the unconscious, of children, and of savages. Following Hitler's invasion of 1939, Josef Capek was sent to a German concentration camp. He died at Belsen in April 1945. Karel Capek became a journalist ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1961
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192810106
SKU
V9780192810106
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About Josef Capek
Karel Capek was a Czech journalist and playwright, as was his brother Josef who also had a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist School. Karel also wrote a sequel to R.U.R. with Josef, called Adam the Creator (1927), which showed man endeavouring to rebuild the world destroyed by robots. Karel's other publications include The Brigand (1920) The Makropulos ... Read more
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