Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek | |
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 A photograph of Karel Čapek | |
| Born | 9 January 1890 |
| Died | 25 December 1938 (aged 48) |
| Burial place | Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague |
| Nationality | Austro-Hungarian; later Czechoslovakian |
| Occupation(s) | Translator, mythologist, director, photographer, playwright, journalist, future fiction, children book's, and book writer, philosopher, painter, literary critic, essayist, poet |
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Karel Čapek (English: Charles Chapek; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czechoslovakian writer, who was the brother of Josef Čapek, an painter and a writer. Čapek first coined the word robot in 1920, through a drama called, R.U.R (Short for Rossumov universal roboti in Bohemian). The events in the first parts of the work take place in a factory where robots are produced. In this drama, robots seem to be like people, and they are like people in almost every way.
Work
[change | change source]Dramas
[change | change source]- Love's Fatal Game (Lásky hra osudná, 1910)
- R.U.R (Short for Rossumov universal roboti in Bohemian, 1920)
- Pictures from the Insect's Life (Ze života hmysu, 1921)
- The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos, 1922)
- Adam the Creator (Adam stvořitel, 1927)
- The White Disease (Bílá nemoc, 1937)
- The Mother (Matka, 1938)