125 years ago was born Karel Capek

January 9, 1890 was born Karel Capek , the famous Czech writer of the XX century, science fiction, through which we have at our lexicon the word "robot».





Karel Capek was born in Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic, and in 14 years began to write, publishing in a local newspaper, often resorting to the help of his brother Joseph. Karel Capek in 1936 was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1935 was nominated for the post of president of International PEN, HG Wells. Creativity Capek was banned in Czechoslovakia because of his views on politics: he was not sympathetic to communism. Like fascism.

Capek died of pneumonia at age 48 in 1938. After the death of a writer's house came from the Gestapo, but the wife Capek hidden files.

R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots h4> In 1920, was written by science fiction play RUR, first shown in January 1921 in Prague. The plot unfolds in a factory for the production of "robots" that are somewhat different from the present our conception of it: in the play talking about artificial people of flesh and blood created from other substances.

Initially, these people Karel Capek called "Labora" from the Latin word «labor» - «work». After a discussion of the term with his brother, Josef Capek, it was decided to call them from the Czech word «robota» - «hard labor" or "hard work." The film raises the question of justice and exploitation of these people shows a scenario - the destruction of "robots" ability to reason and humanity.



The play was filmed in 1956 and 1948 years. Even earlier, in 1938, based on the film was shot robot girl №1 .

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