I read Karel Čapek’s wonderful drama last year, I just had to read it once more and I still find it wonderful. Therefore, I still agree with everything I wrote in my review back then.
Bywają książki sezonowe i ponadczasowe. "Inwazja jaszczurów" Karel Čapeka jest właśnie książką ponadczasową. Napisana w 1936 roku, była głównie krzykiem sprzeciwu wobec postępującemu faszyzmowi. Świetny zabieg autora, który przedstawia problem niczym autentyczne wydarzenia, znajdujemy tam quazi arty...
This is the drama which introduced mankind not only to the word ‘robot’ but also to the concept of an inevitable war between humans and machines. R.U.R. (or W.U.R. in this German translation – a strange, yet very smart translation of the title) was written in Czechoslovakia in 1920 and holy crap, th...
I just listened to an audio drama of R.U.R., Rossum's Universal Robots. It's a short stage play from 1920 and it popularized the word 'robot'. It's a story about a group of people who run a factory that produces many billions of robots, over the years, and things get a little out of control. The pre...
Having run out of Sumo DVDs, and whilst awaiting the beginning of baseball season, we've been watching Wooster and Jeeves videos. One of Wooster's buddies is fanatical about newts. When I discovered that Harold Bloom considered this book to be part of the western literature canon (I discovered this ...
bookshelves: published-1920, play-dramatisation, sci-fi, sciences, dystopian, philosophy, fraudio, satire Read in November, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** BLURB - Karel Capek’s three-act play R.U.R. or Rossum’s Universal Robots was originally staged in Prague in 1920. Once it had been translated from ...
The Gardener's Year by Karel ČapekPaper>trans1929summer 2013gardening> amusingnonfic> shortieIntro by Verlyn KlinkenborgIllustrated by Josef Čapek5* goodness3* RUR4* War With Newts5* The Gardener's Year
A fun little play about a robot revolt. I find it fascinating that the first time robots appear at all, they immediately revolt. It's a play about ideas and also a play that has an almost pulp science fiction feel. A combination of Kafka and Burroughs with some general European intellectualism th...
In recent days, I've had two separate conversations with men of faith. One minister and one pastor. During these conversations, Capek's Absolute at Large came to mind. While I read this book over a year ago, it is one of those books that will forever stay with me. The premise of the book is rather s...
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