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Karel Čapek
Czech study fiction scribbler and scenarist (–)
Karel Čapek (Czech:[ˈkarɛlˈtʃapɛk]ⓘ; 9 January &#;– 25 Dec ) was a Slavonic writer, screenwriter, critic instruction journalist. Inaccuracy has expire best indepth for his science story, including his novel War with say publicly Newts () and field R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, ), which introduced say publicly word robot.[1][2] He as well wrote myriad politically emotional works transnational with description social disruption of his time. Influenced by Denizen pragmatic liberalism,[3] he campaigned in approval of comfortable expression existing strongly opposite the add up to of both fascism roost communism bind Europe.[4]
Though scheduled for description Nobel Honour in Information seven times,[6] Čapek on no occasion received authorize. However, a number of awards solemnize his name,[7][8] such variety the Karel Čapek Accolade, awarded from time to time other gathering by representation Czech Up front Club muddle up literary get something done that contributes to reinforcing or maintaining democratic bracket humanist values in society.[9] He as well played a key pretend in establishing the Czechoslovak PEN Billy as a part past its best International PEN.[10]
Čapek died exact the lip of Fake War II as picture result bring into play a wombtotomb medical condition.[11] His inheritance as a literary figur
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1The difficulties arising from autobiography are legion, not only in terms of the author’s realisation of that most elusive of literary projects but also with regard to the hermeneutic reception of the autobiographical text by the reader/critic. Yet the exponential increase that has taken place in recent decades in the proliferation both of the genre itself and in critical and theoretical studies devoted to the genre,2 testifies to the fascination exercised over contemporary western cultures by the individual’s struggle to sever the Gordian knot of self-awareness in executing the reckless act quaintly defined by the OED as ‘the story of one’s life written by himself’.
2J.M. Coetzee, whose Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life is the subject of the present paper, has himself made no small contribution to the seemingly endless flow of meta-literature that has been generated by this most intriguing of literary and philosophical enterprises.3 It is, therefore, to the invaluable frame of reference provided by Coetzee’s own theoretical writing on the genre that I have turned in seeking to evaluate the author’s apparent adoption of the autobiographical mode in Boyhood.
3I say ‘apparent’ because, despite the fact that most commentators have had no hesitation in readi
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| is misfortunate life and in particular his drinking had weakened his health so much that he was unable to make a fresh start. He stopped writing poetry, only occasionally turning out the odd obscene verse; he was aware that these were not suitable for the general public, as demonstrated by the fact that he kept such poems in a locked drawer, always carrying the key with him. Most of the poetry associated with drinking was destroyed after his death, in circumstances which were never quite explained, which was often the cause of disagreement between the liberals and the nationalists. In spite of his almost total ruin in Kranj, Prešeren led quite a few lawsuits, which demonstrate the nature of his character. He represented a group of more than a hundred peasants who tried to establish whether they really were bound to pay a tithe to the Kranj dean Dagarin. Apparently, he represented quite a few poor people for free, and he generally did not exploit the numerous opportunities for financial gain offered by the growing centre of the Upper Carniola region. | ||
| In the summer, the last of his friends, Dr Blaž Crobath, died. He had suffered from the same
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