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Karel Čapek (Czech: [ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk] ⓘ; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction , including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. ( Rossum's Universal Robots , 1920), which introduced the word robot .
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkarɛl ˈmacɛj ˈtʃapɛk ˈxot]; 21 February 1860 in Domažlice – 3 November 1927 in Prague) was a Czech naturalistic writer and a journalist. Biography
Hordubal (1933) is a novel by Czech writer Karel Čapek. [1] Based on a true account published in the newspaper Lidove noviny where the author was a regular contributor, the story is ultimately concerned with the essential unknowability of the inner lives of others, and the impossibility of true communication among men. [2]
Karel Čapek (left) and Josef Čapek (right) The Brothers Čapek were Josef and Karel Čapek, Czech writers who sometimes wrote together. They are commemorated both for their literary/artistic works and political activism against oppressive government. Their house is now a cultural monument of the Czech Republic, and there are various memorials ...
Daniel Adam z Veleslavína (1546–1599), lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer; Michal Ajvaz (born 1949), novelist and poet, magic realist; Karel Slavoj Amerling, also known as Karl Slavomil Amerling or Slavoj Strnad Klatovský (1807–1884), teacher, writer, and philosopher; Hana Andronikova (born 1967), writer
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Karel Čapek (1890–1938), Czech journalist, writer and playwright; Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod (1860–1927), Czech writer; Milič Čapek (1909–1997), Czech-American philosopher; Norbert Čapek (1870–1942) founder of the Unitarian Church in what became Czechoslovakia; Tereza Čapková (born 1987), Czech athlete; John Capek, Czech-Australian ...
The White Plague (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. [1] Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people ...