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 Libri di Capek Karel su Unilibro.it)
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2002 |
 
Title :
The Gardener's YearAuthor: Capek Karel, Klinkenborg Verlyn (INT), Capek Josef (ILT) Publisher: Modern Library From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in 1929, The Gardener's Year combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author's older brother and collaborator, Josef. Capek's gardeners—all too human, despite their lofty aspirations—often look the fool, whether they be found sopping wet, victims of the cobralike water hose, or hunched over, hands immersed in the soil, “presenting their rumps to the splendid azure sky.” In their repeated folly, Capek gives us not only cause for laughter but also, in the end, “testimony of the imperishable and miraculous optimism of the human race.” This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a New York Times editorialist and the author of Making Hay and The Last Fine Time. € 14,30
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2001 |
Title :
R.u.r.Author: Capek Karel, Selver Paul (TRN), Playfair Nigel (TRN) Publisher: Dover Pubns € 2,70
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1999 |
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Plays: Vol 1Author: Karel Capek Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND Karel Capek (1890-1938) was one of the most original Czech writers of the 1920s and 30s, whose works were the inspiration for most of the science fiction of Europe and America. Endlessly inventive and extraordinarily prescient, full of humor and wit, his plays explore and defend man's humanity. This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, relevant today more than ever. In R.U.R., the Robot—an idea Capek was the first to invent—gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect Play is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies, and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case examines human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan; and The White Plague is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity. 'There was no writer like him ... He made it possible to actually invent worlds, and with laughter into the bargain. This prophetic assurance was mixed with a brand-new surrealistic humor, and it was honed to hard-edged social satire, still a unique combination.'—Arthur Miller € 18,30
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1997 |
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Apocryphal TalesAuthor: Capek Karel, Comrada Norma (TRN) Publisher: Catbird Pr An anthology of stories presenting famous events from the point of view of the man in the street. In one story, a baker describes Jesus' miracle of loaves and fish, in another, townspeople argue who is to blame for the invasion of the Huns. Thirty stories in all.Tales told from the perspectives of figures in Greek and Roman history, the Bible, and the plays of Shakespeare include a story of Hamlet considering whether or not to become an actor, and townspeople arguing over who should be blamed for the approachinghordes of Attila the Hun € 12,90
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1996 |
Title :
Nine Fairy TalesAuthor: Capek Karel, Capek Josef (ILT), Herrmann Dagmar (TRN), Herrmann Dagmar Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Like traditional fairy tales, Capek's fantastic parables contain marvels and supernatural beings, fairies, elves, and talking animals; their plots stem from folk traditions where innocence triumphs. At the same time, Capek infuses these tales with dazzling wordplay, an abundant sense of the absurd, and surprising futuristic twists. Fact and imagination, satire and fantasy are blended so skillfully that the line between logic and plausible nonsense is nearly indiscernible. These are not just children's tales but modern parables. € 21,50
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War With the NewtsAuthor: Capek Karel, Weatherall M., Weatherall R. Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the 'fantastic' satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek sardonically details all the reactions of the civilized world - from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism - and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape. € 24,40
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1995 |
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Talks With T.G. MasarykAuthor: Capek Karel, Heim Michael Henry (EDT) Publisher: Catbird Pr Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850?1937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (1890?1938), the leading Czech writer of the time. Capek interviewed Masaryk over a number of years and produced a single narrative that tells Masaryk's incredible story in a voice as ordinary yet magical as the best of Capek's fictional characters. The result is a biographical work like no other, in form or in content. € 14,80
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1994 |
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Tales from Two PocketsAuthor: Capek Karel, Comrada Norma (TRN) Publisher: Catbird Pr Capek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism. € 13,70
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1993 |
Title :
L'affare MakropulosAuthor: Capek Karel; Mariano G. (cur.) Publisher: Einaudi € 6,71
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1992 |
Title :
Fogli italianiAuthor: Capek Karel; Galdo D. (cur.) Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo € 7,00
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Racconti tormentosiAuthor: Capek Karel Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo € 11,36
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1990 |
Title :
Three NovelsAuthor: Capek Karel Publisher: Catbird Pr This trilogy of novels was the culmination of Karel Capek's career. The novels share neither characters nor events; instead, they approach the problem of knowing people?of mutual understanding?in a variety of ways. Detectives faced with a murder reconstruct the crime, but not the character of the man who was murdered. Three people tell stories about a dying pilot they know almost nothing about; each story is as full of truth as it is devoid of facts. And one man looks back on his life and discovers all the people he might have been. Together, these three short novels form a readable philosophical novel unique in world literature. € 14,80
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War With the NewtsAuthor: Capek Karel Publisher: Catbird Pr One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood. € 11,10
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Toward the Radical CenterAuthor: Capek Karel, Kussi Peter (EDT) Publisher: Catbird Pr Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot. € 13,70
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