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Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Karel Capek
Translated by Sarka Tobrmanova-Kuhnova
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 135
Category/GenreProse - non-fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780571231621
ClassificationsDewey:891.8685209
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 19 August 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the bugeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing. This selection of Capek's writing, translated into English for the first time, contains his essential ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and the everyday - from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning windows - his love of language, his lyrical observations of the world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. His letters to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving and beautifully distinct from his writings. Uplifting, enjoyable and endlessly wise, Believe in People is a collection to treasure.

Author Biography

John Carey is Emeritus Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, as well as The Intellectuals and the Masses. He is the editor of Faber anthologies of Reportage, Utopias and Science. His most recent book, What Good are the Arts?, was praised by Blake Morrison as 'incisive and inspirational.'