...Clarence A. Manning Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 KAREL CAPEK CLARENCE A. MANNING IN THE DEATH o£ Karel Capek two years ago at the early age of forty-eight, the Czechs lost their outstanding man of letters. His plays, especially R. U. R., have been produced successfully...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly robot world of Karel Capek, in which mankind succumbs before Rossum s universal robots, first created to serve it. In this, as in other respects, Utopias and anti-Utopias reflect the great debate of our time how to reconcile direction with freedom, free enterprise with a planned...

... collaborators. Prefaced almost too briefly by a dozen pages of Professor Remenyi s clearly set forth re­ marks, we plunge into Arabic contributions to Western thought, studies of Tu Fu, Karl Capek, contemporary France, Goethe, Homer et al., down the alphabetical cascade to Russia, Scotland, Sweden, and Yugo­...

..., studies of Tu Fu, Karl Capek, contemporary France, Goethe, Homer et al., down the alphabetical cascade to Russia, Scotland, Sweden, and Yugo­ slavia. That such a volume of essay offerings must be partly, even largely, enumerative in technique and often regrettably cramped (sixteen literatures being...

... and Slovakia. As the late Karel Capek wrote only a year ago: [Czechoslovakia is] just one half way between North and South, and be­ tween east and west, just in the middle between the four Seas whose shores outline the complicated contour of Europe. . . . This spot of earth was successively overrun...

... world, not merely one symbolized by unfragrant plastic flowers or sug­ gested by Walden Two, but one of the sort projected by Capek, Huxley, Kafka, and Orwell. Neither creativity nor moral responsi­ bility can flourish in a world in which the individual has become a mere serial number, a set of digits...

... mannequins that could pour wine, through the clockwork automata of the eighteenth century, to the creepily lifelike audio-animatronic figurines familiar to the millions who have seen a Disney robot drama. The word robot itself was first Cyberculture 515 used, significantly, in Karel Capek s 1921 science...