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Capek, translated for a blog

Andrew Malcovsky is this week’s Three Percent Hero. He’s translating, and posting online for free, a collection of Karel Capek’s (novelist, co-inventor of the word ‘robot’, and brother to Josef Capek, artist and book cover designer) short stories and occasional pieces: Obviously, this is my ...

Karel Capek

The Progressive Historian on Karel Capek (via CESLIT): Karel Capek was born in what is now the Czech Republic, but what belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire when he was born in 1890. In a period of less than a decade, the Czech lands saw the birth of three titans of early 20th century literature: the raucous Slavic ...