Karel Čapek in New York
14. 2. 2025
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YEAR OF KAREL ČAPEKThis year, on the 135th anniversary of his birth, we will be celebrating the genius of Karel Čapek and reconsidering the relevance of his work today. The Prescience
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Thomas Ort
is Associate Professor of modern European history at Queens College,
The City University of New York. The main focus of his research has been
modernist and avant-garde life in early twentieth-century
Czechoslovakia, but his most recent work concerns the politics of memory
in postwar Eastern Europe. He is the author of Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), which was subsequently translated into Czech (Argo, 2016). Prof. Ort’s new book project, Meaning, Memory, and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich,
explores the ever-evolving interpretations of the killing of Reinhard
Heydrich, the SS general and architect of the Final Solution, who was
assassinated in Prague in 1942.The Long Island University - Post in Brookville, NY
presents
Karel Čapek’s play
RUR
(Rossum’s Universal Robots)
February 21-23, 2025
The Little Theater on Post Road, across
from the library at LIU Post. The campus is located on Northern
Boulevard (Route 25A) between Glen Cove Road and Route 107Karel Čapek, 1890–1938, a renowned Czech writer, playwright, critic, journalist, and friend of the first Czechoslovak president TG Masaryk, has been compared to writers like George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. His notable works include the novels War with the Newts and Krakatit, and plays such as The White Plague, The Makropulos Case, The Insect Play, and R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the term "robot" to the world. Čapek's writing spanned multiple genres, from drama and fiction to essays, travel writing, reflections on gardening and enchanting stories for children. He was a master of language and storytelling, elevating Czech literature on the global stage.
Despite being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times, Čapek never received the award. He was instrumental in establishing the Czechoslovak PEN Club as part of International PEN.
In honor of his legacy, astronomer Luboš Kohoutek named an asteroid he discovered in 1969, capek 1931. Richard E. Pattis of Stanford University also named his educational programming language "Karel" after the author.
Čapek's play The Makropulos Case inspired composer Leoš Janáček to create the celebrated opera (1925) of the same name.
with the support of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA) and in cooperation with the Czech Center NY.
We recommend
Julie Urbišová's interview with Matěj Číp,
the "cimbalom guy" and alumnus
of our 6-Minute Challenge, Vol. 15, 2023.
It is the first interview in English in the podcast Doma ve státech, featuring Czechs living in the USA.
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