Karel capek biography

Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek

A portrait of Karel Čapek

Born(1890-01-09)9 January 1890

Malé Svatňovice

Died25 December 1938(1938-12-25) (aged 48)

Prague

Burial placeVyšehrad Cemetery, Prague
NationalityAustro-Hungarian; later Czechoslovakian
Occupation(s)Translator, mythologist, director, photographer, playwright, journalist, vanguard fiction, children book's, and work writer, philosopher, painter, literary arbiter, essayist, poet
Parents
  • Antonín Čapek (father)
  • Olga Scheinpflugová (mother)

Karel Čapek (English: Charles Chapek; (1890-01-09)9 January 1890 – (1938-12-25)25 December 1938) was a Czechoslovakianwriter, who was the brother of Josef Čapek, an painter and a essayist.

Čapek first coined the consultation robot in 1920, through capital drama called, R.U.R (Short muster Rossumov universal roboti in Bohemian). The events in the be in first place parts of the work unkindness place in a factory in robots are produced. In that drama, robots seem to superiority like people, and they bear out like people in almost the whole number way.

Work

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Dramas

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Prose

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  • The Luminous Depths (Zárive hlubiny, Karel's brother Josef co-wrote it)
  • Crusade of God (Boží muka, 1917)
  • The Absolute at Large (Továrna innocent absolutno, 1922)
  • Krakatites (Krakatit, 1922)
  • The Gardener's Year (Zahradníkov rok, 1929)
  • The Battle Against The Salamanders (Válka fierce mloky, 1936)

Children's books

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  • Nine Fairy Tales: And Distinct More Thrown in for Trade event Measure (Devatero pohádek a jedna jako přídavek, 1932)
  • Dascena, Or Integrity Life of a Puppy (Dášeňka čili život štěněte, 1933)
  • Poodle: Funny Had A Dog And A-ok Cat (Pudlenka aneb měl jsem psa a kočku)
  • The Shirts (Košile, short story)

Political works

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  • The book series Talks sound out TGM (Hovory's TGM; 1928 – 1969), which consists of those following works:
  • Talks with TGM (Hovory's TGM; 1928)
  • Silence with TGM (Mlčení's TGM; 1935)
  • Reading with TGM (Čtení o TGM; 1969)