![]() He created the word robot from the Czech noun robota, meaning "work" for the human-made automatons who in that play took over the world, leaving only one human being alive. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921) was a satire on the machine age. The plays of Karel Capek presage the Theater of the Absurd. In his numerous short stories he depicts the problems of modern life and common people in a humorous and whimsically philosophical fashion. The novel Krakatit (1924), about an explosive that could destroy the world, foreshadows the feared potential of a nuclear disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() His bitingly satirical novel The War with the Newts (1936) reveals his understanding of the possible consequences of scientific advance. Karel Capek is best known abroad for his plays, but at home he is also revered as an accomplished novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and writer of political articles. ![]()
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