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R.U.R.

R.U.R.

by Karel Capek
Paperback
Publication Date: 21/02/2019

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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot.
ISBN:
9781797742052
9781797742052
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
21-02-2019
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pages:
114
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x7mm
Weight:
0.18kg
Karel Capek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist.

He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.

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