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Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112206
Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest comedic efforts.
Author : Ivan Klíma
Publisher : Catbird Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Authors, Czech
ISBN : 0945774532
And although originally written in Czech, the book was commissioned by Catbird Press and was therefore written with foreign readers in mind; in other words, no prior knowledge of Capek's writings or his milieu is required."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141182083
A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798746099464
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot.
Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Czech drama
ISBN : UVA:X004014807
Author : K. Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230347540
The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.
Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547643395
"R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" by Karel Čapek (translated by Nigel Playfair, Paul Selver). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151513766X
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. R.U.R. stands for Rosumovi Univerzalni Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots). However, the English phrase Rossum's Universal Robots had been used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered on 25 January 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. R.U.R. quickly became famous and was influential early in the history of its publication. By 1923, it had been translated into thirty languages. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called roboti (robots), 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, androids 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. Capek 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.
Author : Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0873384164
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Author : Kateřina Čupová,Karel Čapek
Publisher : Miraggi Edizioni
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9788833862088
RUR Rossum’s Universal Robots è originariamente il testo teatrale che, nel 1920, introduce nella cultura mondiale il termine “robot”. La storia, una delle prime distopie del XX secolo, racconta le tragiche conseguenze innescate dalla creazione di un uomo artificiale, organico ma apparentemente privo di quelle caratteristiche che rendono l’uomo debole e fallibile, come i sentimenti, i bisogni e il libero arbitrio – in una parola, l’anima. Tuttavia nessuna creatura può essere radicalmente diversa dal suo creatore e i robot di Karel Čapek, prodotti come beni di consumo per sollevare gli esseri umani dalle fatiche del lavoro fisico, sanno essere solidali tra loro, ribelli e violenti come gli uomini che li hanno costruiti.Nella storia di RUR si riflettono le grandi paure del Novecento di fronte all’avanzata del totalitarismo bolscevico, della vertiginosa corsa del progresso tecnico-scientifico, della disumanizzazione delle masse e delle ingiustizie sociali del capitalismo industriale. RUR è un «ammonimento alla società tecnologica, perché si avveda in tempo del baratro in cui sta precipitando». Di questo nobile fine letterario e sociale, tuttavia, rimarranno nella cultura di massa solo la parola “robot” e la spettacolarizzazione della tecnologia, che daranno vita a un ricco filone fantascientifico sia letterario che cinematografico che ha successo ancora oggi, dopo più di un secolo. Josef e Karel ČapeK e l’invenzione della parola “robot” «Ehi, Josef,» esordì l’autore «mi è venuta un’idea per un’opera». «Che idea?» bofonchiò il pittore (e bofonchiò davvero, visto che teneva tra le labbra un pennello). L’autore gliela spiegò nel modo più conciso possibile. «E allora scrivila» ribatté il pittore, senza smettere di lavorare alla tela, col pennello ancora in bocca. la sua indifferenza era quasi offensiva. «È che non so come chiamarli, gli operai artificiali,» continuò l’autore «avevo pensato a labor, ma mi sembra un po’ troppo libresco». «E allora chiamali robot» borbottò il pittore con il pennello tra le labbra, continuando a dipingere. E così fu. Ecco dunque in che modo è nata la parola robot; che sia quindi attribuita al suo reale inventore.
Author : Karel ¿Apek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434105431
R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots, is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who authored many plays and novels, many with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the best known of these works because it brought the word robot into the English language. Robot is derived from the Czech word meaning "worker." The play is set in the island headquarters of the R.U.R. corporation. The corporation has been manufacturing artificial beings that resemble humans but are tireless workers. They can be mass-produced in large numbers and are being adopted as laborers in many countries. In the play's first scene, they are visited by a young woman, Helena Glory, who aspires to relieve the lot of the robots, whom she sees as oppressed. However, in what must be the fastest seduction scene in all of drama, she is wooed by and agrees to marry Harry Domin, the factory manager she has just met. She still aspires to improve the life of robots and find a way to give them souls. Ultimately, however, this admirable desire leads to disaster for humankind. The play was translated into English and slightly abridged by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. This version quickly became popular with both British and American audiences and was well received by critics. The play is wildly entertaining, a delight to read. But it also foreshadows many of the issues we face in the widespread use of automation and artificial intelligence. What could possibly go wrong?
Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517304717
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Author : Kai Ashante Wilson
Publisher : Tor.com
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466891913
One of Wired's Twenty-Five All-Time Favorite Books Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his commercial debut with this striking, wondrous tale of gods and mortals, magic and steel, and life and death that will reshape how you look at sword and sorcery. Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight. The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned the Earth for Heaven, and they will need all the gifts those divine ancestors left to them to keep their caravan brothers alive. The one safe road between the northern oasis and southern kingdom is stalked by a necromantic terror. Demane may have to master his wild powers and trade humanity for godhood if he is to keep his brothers and his beloved captain alive. PRAISE FOR THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS "The unruly lovechild of Shakespeare, Baldwin, George RR Martin and Ghostface Killah -- this was a book I could not put down." - Daniel José Older, author of Half-Resurrection Blues "Lyrical and polyphonous, gorgeous and brutal, THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS is an unforgettable tale of love that empowers." - Ken Liu, multiple Hugo Award-winning author of The Grace of Kings "Wilson is doing something both very new and very old here: he's tossing aside the traditional forms of sword and sorcery in favor of other, older forms, and gluing it all together with a love letter to black masculinity. The result is powerful and strange and painful in all the right ways." -N.K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms "THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS reads like Gene Wolfe and Samuel R Delany trying to one-up each other on a story prompt by Fritz Leiber. That means it's good. Read it." - Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence "Seamlessly knots magic and science in a wholly organic way... THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS will catch you by the throat and hold you fast until the last searing word." - Alyssa Wong, Nebula-nominated author of "The Fisher Queen" At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:81461419
Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Catbird Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Czech drama
ISBN : 0945774079
Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.
