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Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing.
This selection of Capek's writing, translated into English for the first time, contains his essential ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and the everyday - from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning windows - his love of language, his lyrical observations of the world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. His letters to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving and beautifully distinct from his other writings.
Uplifting, enjoyable and endlessly wise, Believe in People is a collection to treasure.
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Highly recommended.
It is now obvious to me why Karel Capek is one of the most beloved writers in the Czech Republic. His columns make very good reading. It's a bit harder to say exactly why, but I'm going to give it the old college try.
His most striking trait is his geniality: he strikes you as a friend, and all of his opinions are offered up simply as thoughts which one friend would share with another.
But perhaps the second most striking trait is his lucidity --- his clarity. You never, ever wonder what one of his sentences means.
The third thing is probably the most important: he's right about a lot of stuff, and, if he's not "right," he will surely make you think.
I really can't give a book a higher recommendation. This stuff is just superb.
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