Capek meaning in english
Karel Čapek
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| Born | (1890-01-09)9 January 1890 Malé Svatňovice |
| Died | 25 December 1938(1938-12-25) (aged 48) Prague |
| Burial place | Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague |
| Nationality | Austro-Hungarian; later Czechoslovakian |
| Occupation(s) | Translator, mythologist, director, photographer, playwright, journalist, future fiction, children book's, and book writer, philosopher, painter, literary critic, essayist, poet |
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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 writer. Čapek first coined the word robot in 1920, through a drama called, R.U.R (Short for Rossumov universal roboti in Bohemian). The events in the first parts of the work take place in a factory where robots are produced. In this drama, robots seem to be like people, and they are like people in almost every way.
Work
Dramas
Prose
- The Luminous Depths (Zárive hlubiny, Karel's brother Josef co-wrote it)
- Crusade of God (Boží muka, 1917)
- The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno, 1922)
- Krakatites (Krakatit, 1922)
- The Gardener's Year (Zahradníkov rok, 1929)
- The War Against The Salamanders (Válka s mloky, 1936)
Children's books
- Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure (Devatero pohádek a jedna jako přídavek, 1932)
- Dascena, Or The Life of a Puppy (Dášeňka čili život štěněte, 1933)
- Poodle: I Had A Dog And A Cat (Pudlenka aneb měl jsem psa a kočku)
- The Shirts (Košile, short story)
Political works
- The book series Talks with 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)