Čapek Karel: Believe in People

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Publikace: Believe in People - Karel Čapek. Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Čapek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play "RUR", Čapek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Čapek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing. This selection of Čapek'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 other writings. Uplifting, enjoyable and endlessly wise, "Believe in People" is a collection to treasure. Publikace: Believe in People - Karel Čapek. Selected and translated from the Czech by Sarka Tobrmanova-Kuhnova, this is a classic collection of pieces by Capek, one of the great European writers of the 20th century. With a preface by John Carey.