He was a big playwright and his plays are known in the world. Such as The White Disease
or The Mother. Well known novels such as War with Newts or Krakatit.
I have never read anything by him. But Daniel has read Krakatit. He read it when he was a
primary school pupil. Daniel liked it. The story was interesting and catchy. He was surprised by that
as Čapek is a classic and sometimes kids think classics are old and boring books. Miss Opatová,
when she was a little child, used to read a comic magazine for kids
called ABC and she still remembers today the comic War with the
Newts, such a deep impact it had on her, she can
recommend it.
By the way, his older brother, Josef Čapek, was also a writer.
He had been critical of Nazis too. Later he was imprisoned. He
wrote, for example Poems from a Concentration Camp in the
Bergen-Belsen Camp, where he sadly died in April 1945.
Premiere of R.U.R. in New York, 1921
Links to the sources of the photos and information:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Karel+%C4%8Capek&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1&uselang=cs&searchTo
ken=hvnwzlvtxyowa35q7os66pt6#/media/File:Karel_%C4%8Capek_30.l%C3%A9ta.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek
http://www.capek-karel-pamatnik.cz/EN/index.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
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