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Josef Čapek (1887–1945)

Auteur de R.U.R. and The Insect Play (Oxford Paperbacks)

58+ oeuvres 401 utilisateurs 5 critiques

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Œuvres de Josef Čapek

Povidejme si, deti 9 exemplaires
Stín kapradiny (1998) 8 exemplaires
Harum Scarum : A Read Aloud Book (1963) 5 exemplaires
Un gâteau 100 fois bon (1971) 5 exemplaires
Adam the Creator 4 exemplaires
Lelio ; Pro delfína (1997) 3 exemplaires
Psáno do mraků 1936-1939 (1993) 2 exemplaires
O sobě 2 exemplaires
Gedichte aus dem KZ (2015) 2 exemplaires
Josef Capek: The Humblest Art (2003) 2 exemplaires
Rodné krajiny 2 exemplaires
Publicistika 2 1 exemplaire
Beletrie 1 (2011) 1 exemplaire
Oheň a touha 1 exemplaire
Ledacos : feuilletony 1 exemplaire
L'ombra della felce (2007) 1 exemplaire
Povídejmesi, děti 1 exemplaire
Rozpravky p psickovi a macicke (2007) 1 exemplaire
Husaion V. 1 exemplaire
Modre Debe 1 exemplaire
Le pantalon déchiré (1999) 1 exemplaire
Histoire de la lettre (1999) 1 exemplaire
Rodné krajiny 1 exemplaire
Kam odešly lané 1 exemplaire
Publicistika (2008) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

L'Année du jardinier (1929) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions443 exemplaires
Twenty best European plays on the American stage (1957) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Open the Door (1965) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
Selected Czech Tales, (The World's Classics) (1977) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Nom canonique
Čapek, Josef
Nom légal
Čapek, Josef
Date de naissance
1887-03-23
Date de décès
1945-04
Lieu de sépulture
Vyšehrad cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic (symbolic grave)
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Czech
Lieu de naissance
Hronov, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic)
Lieu du décès
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Lieux de résidence
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Paris, France
Études
Academie Colarossi, Paris
School of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Professions
painter
illustrator
essayist
playwright
novelist
translator (tout afficher 10)
poet
graphic artist
children's book illustrator
children's book author
Relations
Čapek, Karel (brother)
Čapek, Karel & Josef (gestalt entity)
Poláček, Karel (friend)
Courte biographie
Josef Čapek was born in Hronov, Bohemia, then in Austria-Hungary, later Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic. His younger brother was Karel Čapek. In 1890, the family moved to Úpice, where Josef was unsuccessful at school, although his artistic talent was noted. Later he went to a German-speaking vocational school for weaving in Vrchlabí. After graduating in 1903, he worked for a year in a factory. In 1904, he moved to Prague, where he studied at the School of Applied Arts and met his future wife, Jarmila Pospíšilová. He went to Paris in 1910 to attend the Colarossi Academy. When his brother came to visit, they wrote the first draft of the play Loupežník (The Robber) together. He collaborated with Karel on a number of other plays and short stories, the most famous of which was Ze života hmyzu (The World We Live In/The Insect Play), premiered in 1922. Independently, Josef wrote the utopian play Země mnoha jmen (Land of Many Names) and several novels, as well as essays. He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term "robot." As a painter of the Cubist school, Josef Čapek developed his own playful, minimalist style. His illustrated collection of stories Povídání o Pejskovi a Kočičce (English translation, The Adventures of Puss and Pup, 1975), first published in 1927, is a beloved classic of Czech children's literature. He worked for 18 years as a cartoonist, editor, and art critic for Lidové noviny, a daily newspaper in Prague. Due to his pointed criticism of Nazism, Josef was arrested by the Gestapo after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939 and deported to the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald, where he spent two and a half years. In 1942, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen, where he secretly wrote a long poem dedicated to Karel, translated English, Spanish, and Norwegian poetry, and made small pencil drawings. In February 1945, he was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where he wrote Poems from a Concentration Camp (published posthumously). He died during a typhus epidemic at the camp. In the decades since his death, several short films, television productions, and a feature film have been produced based on Josef Čapek's work. These include The Shadow of the Ferns (based on the novel Stín kapradiny), released in 1986.

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A dog and a cat live together and have silly adventures. Cute stories and the illustrations are nice.
 
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electrascaife | 1 autre critique | Nov 1, 2018 |
It seems particularily powerful to me that Josef Čapek died in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. One of the only voices we can hear of the millions silenced in those camp.
 
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pifthemighty | 1 autre critique | Sep 13, 2006 |
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) was written in 1920, premiered in Prague early in 1921, was performed in New York in 1922, and published in English translation in 1923. Virtually every encyclopedia or textbook etymology of the word "robot" mentions the play R.U.R. Although the immediate worldwide success of the play immediately popularized the word (supplanting the earlier "automaton"), it was actually not Karel Capek but his brother Josef, also a respected Czech writer, who coined the word. The Czech word robota means "drudgery" or "servitude"; a robotnik is a peasant or serf. Although the term today conjures up images of clanking metal contraptions, Capek's Robots (always capitalized) are more accurately the product of what we would now call genetic engineering.
The translator (Paul Selver) changed the play quite a bit while preparing the English version, combining two Robot characters into one, and considerably toning down the ending. If you're interested in reading the play as it was originally presented to American audiences, read the 1920s version (most university libraries will have a copy -- it was tremendously popular in its day).
In the 1990s, a new translation, with much better dialogue and a chilling new final speech (new to English audiences, anyway) by the Robot Damon, was published in a Capek reader called Toward the Radical Center (with a short introduction by Arthur Miller).
[http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/RUR/]
Written just before WWII the Insect Play is a wonderful fantasy full of political allegory and social commentary. It is important to keep in mind when reading the Insect Play that Josef Capek died in a Nazi concentration camp.
… (plus d'informations)
 
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mmckay | 1 autre critique | Aug 11, 2006 |

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Membres
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Popularité
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Évaluation
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Critiques
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ISBN
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