Bøger af Karel Čapek

Nyt omslag, nyt forord af Søren Vester.Et år med min have er et charmerende og morsomt indblik i en amatørgartners liv. Bogen er både en praktisk guide til havearbejde og samtidig en lille litterær perle, der på underfundig vis beretter om årets gang i haven.Bogen udkom i 1929 og er en sand klassiker inden for fortællende havebøger. Forfatteren formår at underholde, så selv læsere uden grønne fingre føler sig fanget af hans sprog og humor. Man kan for eksempel læse om utæmmelige haveslanger, frøs magi, hængende løg og fordelen ved frodigt ukrudt.I mange år har Et år med min have kun været muligt at få antikvarisk, men nu udkommer den som gavebog i et praktisk lommebogsformat med illustrationer af forfatterens bror. Denne udgave har desuden forord af haveejer og tv-vært Søren Vester.

The Gardener's Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features lively black and white illustrations by Czech artist Josef Capek and is translated by M. and R. Weatherall.From making puddles with an untamable hose to sowing luxuriant weeds instead of grass, Capek reveals how a gardener grows into his surroundings 'spurred on by each new failure'. Subverting the tradition of a 'how to' gardening book, he teaches his readers about the magic of seeds, the perils of planting vegetables and the thrilling surprises of a rock garden. As the year progresses and frail buds turn from flowering stems to drooping bulbs and falling leaves, Capek's small garden buzzes with life, wisdom and humour.

Dette er Peter Bugges nyoversættelse af Karel Čapeks berømte dystopiske roman fra 1936 der ikke har været oversat til dansk siden 1937. Denne nye udgave er tro mod det grafiske design fra den originale tjekkiske udgave men tilføjer også nye visuelle elementer og illustrationer.Den satiriske gennemgang af alle det moderne samfunds magtfaktorer er stadig relevante i dag. Ingen er sikre når salamandrene kommer!“I dag lever der på hele jordkloden cirka tyve milliarder civiliserede salamandre, altså cirka ti gange så mange som alle mennesker tilsammen; det fremgår deraf med biologisk nødvendighed og historisk logik, at salamandrene, som er undertrykt, må befri sig; at de, da de er homogene, må forene sig; og at de, når de så-ledes er blevet til den største magt, verden nogen sinde har set, nødvendigvis må overtage herredømmet over verden. Tror I, at de er så tåbelige, at de så vil skåne mennesket?”Uddrag fra Wolf Meynerts værk: ”Untergang der Menschheit”.

A lighthearted mock-treatise reflects upon the pains and rewards of tending a small garden plot. "This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners." - Nature.

Two dystopian satires from one of the most distinguished writers of 20th-century European science fiction. R.U.R. is the work that first introduced the word 'robot' into popular usage.

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R.U.R. (Rossums Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karelcapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. In this classic satire, after inventing the Karburator, a machine that can create almost free energy a brilliant scientist discovers this reactor yields and releases a powerful bi-product, The Absolute into the World.

In May 2010, US scientists succeeded in creating the first self-replicating synthetic life. The advance has been hailed as a scientific landmark, but critics say there are dangers posed by synthetic organisms. In 1920, Karel Capek predicted this exact scenario in his prescient Rossum Universal Robots (R.U.R.) Predating Huxely's Brave New World by two decades, R.U.R. claims the same footing in history as the earliest masterpiece that depicts the decline of Homo Sapiens and their replacement by the Post Humans. Karel Capek was the most famous author in the Czech Republic in the first half of the 20th century. His work widely translated and still inspires story tellers and movie directors the world over. R.U.R inspired Spielberg' A.I., Will Smith' I Robot and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator series, among others. "Capek's play is immortal for that one word it contributed, 'Robot', not only to English but, through English, to all the languages." Isaac Asimov

Prokop is a scientist who has a passion for the chemistry of explosives; this passion flowers in the discovery of Krakatit, a new explosive infinitely more powerful than any previously known, an explosive capable of wrecking the world; the small box of Krakatit is stolen; Prokop, in a panic of fear lest his terrible discovery do irreparable harm to humankind, begins frantically to chase what faint clues he has."Krakatit is a book to own and not to borrow."-The Central European Observer"The book is an adventure story, a fantastic mystery tale; but fundamentally it is a tour de force, the literary representation of the idea of explosion."-Time"The story rushes on tearing wheels like a high power car."-The Virginia Quarterly"This is a highly explosive book and must be handled with the utmost care."-The Slavonic Review"¿apek's dramatic instinct is unerring; he extracts from ­every situation an essence of terror, pity, or comedy that gives ­emotional significance to the smallest episode."-Times Literary Supplement

Originally produced on Broadway by The Theatre Guild, R. U. R. is now considered a classic of science fiction. Credited with introducing the word "robot" into the English language, the play is a dramatic and fascinating look into the lives of the scientists who invite and manufacture a working class of robots. Over time, the robots develop beyond the expectations of the scientists and acquire human feelings. They start a revolt, taking over the world, until every human, but one, is extinct.

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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. R.U.R. is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called "robots". Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race. After finishing the manuscript, Capek realized that he had created a modern version of the Jewish Golem legend. He later took a different approach to the same theme in War with the Newts, in which non-humans become a servant class in human society. R.U.R is dark but not without hope, and was successful in its day in both Europe and the United States.

R.U.R. es una obra teatral escrita en 1921 y estrenada ese mismo año en Praga y en 1922 en Nueva York, cosechando un éxito mundial. Una de las obras claves de la ciencia ficción moderna, no sólo introdujo el término "robot" en el lenguaje popular, sino que además explora las diversas vertientes entre los hombres y sus creaciones artificiales. Aunque los robots de Capek están más cerca de nuestra actual definición de cyborg, o incluso de clones, son en el fondo unas simples máquinas diseñadas para servir, pero no para pensar. Aunque felices de vivir en su particular Utopía, pronto los robots se rebelarán contra la humanidad buscando convertirse en aquello que son sus creadores. * Karel Capek (1890-1938) fue uno de los principales escritores checos del periodo de entreguerras. Autor teatral, novelista y periodista, escribió varios clásicos de la ciencia ficción y la literatura especulativa, como "R.U.R.", "La Fábrica del Absoluto" o "La Guerra de las Salamandras".

Hordubal is a Czech novel, written by Karel Capek. It was first published in 1933. It is an examination of the difference between internal and external knowledge. It is considered part of a trilogy with Meteor and An Ordinary Life. Juraj Hordubal returns home to Carpathian Ruthenia after eight years of hard work in America. He is looking forward to seeing his devoted wife Polana and daughter Hafia. Everything is greatly idealised in his eyes as he expects everyone to welcome him warmly. However, the reality is different, he is accepted very coldly but hopes that things will get better soon and everyone will get used to his presence.

In Capek's Obycejny zivot a retired railway officer describes his "ordinary life" in memoirs Gradually, he comes to the realisation that he is actually composed of many competing personalities which all contribute to his eventual fate. This is the third book in Capek's Noetic Trilogy. The other two works, Hordubal and Povetron are also available from JiaHu Books.

Part of the Noetic Trilogy dealing with how people can draw different conclusions from the same set of circumstances. In Meteor a man is dragged from the wreckage of a plane with no papers and dies in front of three witnesses who each deal with the death in their own way.

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. It quickly became famous and was influential early in the history of its publication. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called roboti, out of synthetic organic matter. They are not exactly robots by the current definition of the term; these creatures are closer to the modern idea of cyborgs or even clones, as they may be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans at first, but that changes, and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race.

Továrna na absolutno is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Capek in 1922. The first sentence opens the story on New Year's Day 1943, and describes the fundamental transformations in society as the result of a new mystical source of virtually free energy. The story centers on the invention of a reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy. Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the absolute.

Válka s mloky is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Capek. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of newts, who are initially enslaved and exploited. They acquire human knowledge and rebel, leading to a global war for supremacy. The book is a dark satire, poking fun extensively at the contemporary European politics, including colonialism, fascism and Nazism, segregation in America, and the arms race. A notable satirical point is the mentioned research of a German scientist who has determined that the German Newts are actually a superior Nordic race, and that as such they have a right to expand their living space at the expense of the inferior breeds of Newts.

Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist Mr. Prokop, who was able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause. After an accident in the laboratory an exhausted Prokop tumbles into Prague when he meets Tomes, who takes him into his care.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. War with the Newts (Valka s mloky in the original Czech), also translated as War with the Salamanders, is a 1936 satirical science fiction story by Czech author Karel Capek. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of newts, who are initially enslaved and exploited. They acquire human knowledge and rebel, leading to a global war for supremacy

Selvom Tjekkiets mest oversatte forfatter, Karel Čapek, skrev sine noveller i den første halvdel af det 20. århundrede, er historierne fortsat aktuelle. Endnu hundrede år efter de blev skrevet, har de ikke mistet noget af deres læseværdighed. “Kriminalhistorier” er en samling af korte historier, hvor forfatteren reflekterer over spørgsmål som lov og ret, godt og ondt, forbrydelse og straf. Historiernes helte er politikommissærer, agenter og gendarmer, men også kriminelle, ægteskabssvindlere eller fanatiske samlere. Čapek er ikke kun en stor fortæller, men også mester i paradokser, som på en kultiveret måde og med indsigt og humor beskriver sine helte og fører læseren gennem historierne. Čapeks detektivhistorier blev i første omgang publiceret periodevis i et magasin i 1929 og udkom senere som to bøger, henholdsvis med titlen “Historier fra den ene lomme” og “Historier fra den anden lomme”. Novellerne hører til den moderne tjekkiske prosas perler, som i dag tæller blandt klassikerne. Novellerne er oversat til utallige sprog og er i flere omgange blevet filmatiseret. “Kriminalhistorier” er et udvalg af de bedste historier fra begge bøger. En bog, som du ikke vil kunne lægge fra dig og vil læse igen og igen.

"A new translation of Karel Capek's 1920 play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), with essays from contemporary writers and scientists"--

'War with the Newts' is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early twentieth-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As the rest of the world learns of the creatures and their wonderful capabilities, it is clear that this new species is ripe for exploitation - they can be traded in their thousands, will do the work no human wants to do, and can fight - but the humans have given no thought to the terrible consequences of their actions.

We have Czech writer Karel Čapek to thank for the invention of the word robot and generally for the introduction of the idea of artificial intelligence to the world of literature. His play, "R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" was written in 1920 and was first performed in 1921. The play was an instant success and was translated into over 30 languages within two years of its first performance. The play begins in a factory that makes the "robots", which could be more accurately described as cyborgs, since they are more living creature than machine. "R. U. R." envisions a future where robots have become universal and all of humanity is now dependent on the labor that they provide, which remains a timely subject even one hundred years later. At first, everything seems perfect and the robots are happy to serve humans until the robots are later stirred into revolt. Čapek's vision of a dystopian future where humans may be ruled by machines was immediately and profoundly influential on the science fiction genre and to future authors. "R. U. R." is Čapek's prophetic and dark dystopian vision of the future which would solidify his place in dramatic history and leave a lasting legacy on modern literature. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.