R.U.R. : Rossum's Universal Robots

Author: Capek, Karel

Brand: Penguin

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Rossum's Universal Robots

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 112

Release Date: 30-03-2004

Part Number: 9780141182087

Details: Product Description
A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot"

Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.

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Review
?A great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, clear, honorable, blackly funny, and prophetic.? (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)"



A great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, clear, honorable, blackly funny, and prophetic. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
About the Author
Karel Capek (1890–1938) was the leading Czech playwright, novelist, and columnist between the wars. He is best known for
R. U. R. and his novel,
War with the Newts.


Ivan Klíma is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist whose work was long suppressed under Communism.

EAN: 9780141182087

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English, Czech