Karel Čapek (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Karel Čapek (CHAH-pehk), a Czechoslovakian author and playwright, was born in 1890 in Malé Svatoňovice, Bohemia, then still part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In a sense Karel rose and fell with his country, for his death at Prague on December 25, 1938, roughly coincided with the collapse of the young country. His last play, The Mother, was both against dictatorship and supportive of pacifism.
Although the sons of a doctor, Karel and his brother Josef followed their own inclinations, the latter known primarily as a painter but also as his brother’s able...
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