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	Karel Capek - Presentation on Karel Capek
		In the case of Karel Capek it was a small village in the very east Bohemia called "Mal Svatonovice".
		Karel Capek's effort was to mediate new trends in French literature and there really appeared a book called "French Poetry of the New Age" (Francouzská poezie nové doby) in 1920.
		Karel Capek did hit the nail on the head when describing t he characters of the nations.
	capek.misto.cz /english/presentat.html (2301 words)

	Karel Čapek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karel Čapek (pronounced KARel CHAP-ek (♫); IPA: ['tʃapek]) (January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938) was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century.
		Karel Čapek wrote with intelligence and humor on a wide variety of subjects.
		Karel Čapek died in the December preceding the outbreak of World War II and was interred in the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capek (1006 words)

	Karel Capek
		Capek continued his studies in Berlin, and Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1915 for a thesis on "Objective Methods in Aesthetics, with Reference to Creative Art", which was extremely well received by his professors.
		Capek depicted in it human vices through dreams in which female butterflies flirt with males and kill one, a beetle steals a store of dung, and ants struggle for power.
		Capek's brother Joseph was sent in 1939 to a German concentration camp and he died at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /capek.htm (1591 words)

	The religion of Karel Capek, acclaimed Czech writer
		Karel Capek is regarded as one of the three great figures of Czech literature, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Franz Kafka.
		Capek's doctoral work at Charles University in Prague was in philosophy and esthetics, but in truth he had been studying philosophy his entire life, and during his youth he published well-informed analyses of philosophical works.
		Nevertheless, Capek remained true to this philosophy throughout his life, and it was in its psirit that he sought a way out of the great conflicts that often formed the content of his work, and this surely cannot be explained by a wartime preoccupation.
	www.adherents.com /people/pc/Karel_Capek.html (3280 words)

	Radio Prague's Virtual Cemetery - Karel Capek
		And when Henlein started to make his brazen demends, Capek increased the number of entries, facts and meetings in his diary, as well as the number of obligations and promises to the radio and newspapers, and his time was fought over by people both invited and uninvited.
		Capek's faith turned to despair, he refused food, and, beaten, worn and exhausted, with an ominous silence he came to the realization that he was of no use.
		Karel Capek didn't protest, he simply extended his hand to Steinbach and begged him: "Stay with me. Somehow my days have been numbered this whole year, with all this ugliness, all this work, strain and distaste.
	archiv.radio.cz /hrbitov/capeng.html (881 words)

	Karel Capek Biography / Biography of Karel Capek Main Biography
		The Czech author Karel Capek (1890-1938) was a noted novelist, playwright, and essayist.
		Born in northeastern Bohemia on Jan. 9, 1890, Karel Capek was the son of a physician.
		Capek's first creative phase (1908-1921) was marked by close collaboration with his brother, Joseph, who later became a distinguished painter.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-karel-capek (228 words)

	Karel Capek Biography Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Matka (The Mother, 1938), the title's unnamed protagonist loses her sons in battle: they reappear as ghosts, and justify to the uncomprehending mother the defense of their ideals which led to their deaths; when an enemy invades the country, the mother is able to send the remaining son to war.
		Capek was undoubtedly affected by the contemporary threat of Nazism in thus resolving the painful problems adumbrated in his play.
		Capek was an immensely productive writer, though he completed only eight plays (three of them with his brother Josef.) Even these few, however, have established his position among important modern dramatists.
	acad.udallas.edu /drama/fall00mainstage/karel_capekpg3.htm (351 words)

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		Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938), one of the most important Czech language writers of 20th century.
		This extraordinary relationship between the great author and the great political leader is perhaps unique, and is known to have been an inspiration to Vaclav Havel.
		Karel Čapek died in the eve of World War II, soon after it became clear that the Western allies had refused to help to defend Czechoslovakia against Hitler.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/karel_capek.html (683 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Capek's genius to me appears erratic and while powerful in certain speeches given his theatrical characters, dissipates over the course of these two plays taken as a whole.
		Karel Capek may have won the 1936 Nobel Prize in literature, were it not for his implicitly and at often times explicitly anti-totalitarian views.
		Karel Capek was amongst Europe's greatest writers and playwrights during the period between WWI and WWII.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0945774079?v=glance (2031 words)

	Karel Capek - Photos, sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This broadcast of Christmas Eve of 1937 was carried on all Czechoslovak stations.
		Karel Capek, a representant of the Czech cultural elite sent a message of peace to the Indian humanist Rabindranath Thakur in Asia, Frantisek Krizik, the Czech inventor gave a speech addressed to his scientific collegue Albert Einstein and his host continent at the time, America.
		The broadcast was conducted in Czech and English.
	capek.misto.cz /english/photos.html (106 words)

	R.U.R. Summary & Essays - Karel Capek
		Capek’s drama is also responsible for coining a new word, ‘‘robot,’’ which became an important fixture of Hollywood films, especially the B-films of the 1950s.
		Capek’s concerns about the dehumanization of man through technology provides the central core of this play, and it is this motif that warns of the destructive force of technology.
		Although contemporary assessments of Capek’s play frequently cite the stereotypical nature of the characters, there is enough depth to them to involve an audience, and this involvement is one of the play’s strengths.
	www.enotes.com /rur (343 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Karel Čapek. Life and Work
		Capek's elder brother, Josef (1887-1945), was a Cubist painter, novelist, and dramatist who collaborated with Karel on some plays and illustrated several of his brother's books.
		Capek continued his studies in Berlin, and Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1915 for a thesis on Objective Methods in Aesthetics, with Reference to Creative Art.
		For example, Karel's somewhat awkward adult relationships with women, particularly his later wife, Olga Scheinpflugová, were largely the result of an unnaturally coddling and clinging mother, combined with the difficulties of living with a spinal deformity.
	www.sfsite.com /08a/ka133.htm (1167 words)

	Karel Capek- The Author of the Robots Defends Himself (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Karel Capek- The Author of the Robots Defends Himself
		Collected in: Karel Čapek, O umení a kulture III.
		The translator has done his best to preserve this usage, even though it is not a distinction that translates entirely happily into English.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/documents/capek68.htm (522 words)

	Biography of Karel Capek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born on January 9, 1890 at Male Svatonovice, Karel Capek was a leading literary figure during the two decades of Czech independence beginning in 1918.
		Two science fiction novels, The Factory of the Absolute (1920) and Krakatit (1924), written in the early 1920's, were followed by a trilogy written in the mid-1930's which included Hordubal, Meteor and An Ordinary Life.
		A champion of democracy, Capek wrote a biography of the Czech president, T.G. Masaryrk and satirized dictatorships in his novel, War with the Newts.
	www.entrenet.com /~groedmed/capek.html (289 words)

	Comrada Vita
		Invited to present a paper at international symposium on Karel Capek - Writer and Democrat, Prague, 2000; airfare courtesy of the American Embassy/U.S.I.S. Selected by Oregon Council for the Humanities as a presenter for the Chautauqua in the Schools pilot program.
		"Capek and Utopia: The World as It Should Be?" Images of Utopia, symposium, UO Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Oregon.
		Presentations on Capek and readings from my translations for arts, library, literary, emigré, O Learning in Retirement program, and other civic and cultural groups and organizations around the state, for high school and university classes, and in connection with drama productions and a UO Slavic Studies film festival.
	www.uoregon.edu /%7Ereesc/comrada.vita.htm (1282 words)

	AllRefer.com - Karel capek (Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Karel capek, Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biographies
		Karel capek[kA´rel chA´pek] Pronunciation Key 1890–1938, Czech playwright, novelist, and essayist.
		These plays embody capek's criticism of technological and materialistic excesses.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Capek-Ka.html (289 words)

	Radio Prague's Virtual Cemetery - Karel Capek
		In the evil times, he confided to Karel Polacek that he was afraid of dying because he'd never done it and didn't know how to do it.
		"Don't be afraid, Capek, you get everything right," Polacek comforted him with a smile, because both of them knew that the approaching death of Czechoslovakia would be their death as well.
		Karel Capek didn't protest, he simply extended his hand to Steinbach and begged him: "Stay with me. Somehow my days have been numbered this whole year, with all this ugliness, all this work, strain and distaste.
	www.radio.cz /hrbitov/capeng.html (881 words)

	Karel Capek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Karel Capek and the President Tomas Garique Masaryk
		Interests in immortality of the great Czech writer Karel Capek are probably best shown in his outstanding theatre play (1922) "The Makropulos case" (in Czech "Vec Makropulos").
		It is here where Capek has introduced the word 'robot' (from the Czech word 'robota') and then it came to all world's languages.
	www.natur.cuni.cz /~vpetr/Capek.htm (1160 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Karel Capek-Life and Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) may have played second fiddle to his Prague colleague and contemporary Franz Kafka, but he gets treated to a fond biography with Ivan Klima's (No Saints or Angels) Karel Capek: Life and Work.
		Capek (1890-1938) is among the greatest figures of modern Czech literature, along with contemporaries Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek.
		Himself a Czech, Kl¡ma appreciates Capek's struggle against both Marxism-Leninism and Nazism, capturing his despair and resolution after Munich, even as he was dying of pneumonia.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0945774532?v=glance (574 words)

	Karel Čapek
		In 1935 Vaclav Palivec gave the use of the Empire house as a wedding present to Karel Capek and his wife Olga Scheinpflug.
		A new exhibition, which opened in 1997, has been dedicated to the personality and literary work of Karel Capek and his wife, an actress and writer, Olga Scheinpflugova.
		The Karel Capek’s Memorial hold many special programs and exhibitions during the year (see „Aktuality“, „Pozvánky“).
	www.capek-karel-pamatnik.cz /html/e_index.htm (331 words)

	Wee Wonderfuls: Karel Capek
		Google says Karel Capek is a "Czech author and playwright who popularized the term robot in his 1920 play, RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots." The Japanese shop, peewee seems to this it is a line of super cute illustrated goods.
		Karl Capek is an author and coined the term "robot" but it was actually his brother Joseph Capek who suggested the term.
		Just know that these illustrations are of neither of the Capek brothers, but by a Japanese illustrator who did the illustrations for the Japanese company selling their items under his name.
	weewonderfuls.typepad.com /wee_wonderfuls/2005/09/karel_capek.html (361 words)

	Josef and Karel Capek
		Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918.
		He collaborated with his brother in composing sketches, stories, plays, as well as writing two short novels of his own and critical essays in which he defended the art of the unconscious, of children and of savages.
		Karel Capek became a journalist and for a time stage manager of the theatre in Vinohrady.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc23.html (245 words)

	Karel Capek biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		KARel CHAP-ek; SAMPA: ['tSapek]) (January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938), was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century.
		Soon after, it became clear that the Western allies had refused to help defend Czechoslovakia against Hitler.
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	karel-capek.biography.ms (926 words)

	Catbird Press / Karel Capek / Karel Čapek
		Catbird Press / Karel Capek / Karel Čapek
		For a new critical biography of Čapek, see Ivan Klíma's Karel Čapek — Life and Work.
		TOWARD THE RADICAL CENTER: A Karel Čapek Reader.
	www.catbirdpress.com /authorpages/capek.htm (458 words)

	Karel Capek: Robots and Hopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		interesting article on Karel Capek and two new books, one about Capek and one by him.
		Cross Roads, is a collection of Capeks writing and the other,
		Karel Capek - Life and Work is a biography.
	robots.net /article/645.html (86 words)

	Karel Capek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Czechish writer Karel Capek first become known to a greater public after his play R.U.R. in which the concept 'robot' was introduced for the first time.
		The satiric novel War with the Newts(1936) which ridicules Nazi-Germany and fascism in general also conveys Capeks ideas that technology can become a threat to mankind and that unabashed capitalism also poses a serious danger.
		At first the salamanders are exploited for profit, but mankind loses control over the incredibly fast-breeding creatures....
	hem.passagen.se /finwe/capek.htm (92 words)

	R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
		Capek responded, via The Saturday Review, to what he felt was the excessive thematic attention they and other critics paid to one of his devices: "For myself, I confess that as the author I was much more interested in men than in Robots." [1]
		Although the term today conjures up images of clanking metal contraptions, Capek's Robots (always capitalized) are more accurately the product of what we would now call genetic engineering.
		If you're interested in reading the play as it was originally presented to American audiences, read the 1920s version (most university libraries will have a copy -- it was tremendously popular in its day).
	jerz.setonhill.edu /resources/RUR (1375 words)

	Karel Capek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The word robot was first used in 1920 by Czech author Karel Capek, who derived it from robota, a Czech word meaning serf or slave.
		Karel Capek first coined the term "robot" and used the theme of human workers versus machines to put the concept of robots in an ethical perspective.
		"The Real Legacy of Karel Capek," written for the Czech Open Information Project, the author describes Capek's effect on politics and political thought.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/people/karel_capek (240 words)

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