Adam the Creator: A Comedy in Six Scenes & an Epilogue by Karel Capek and Josef Capek. London. 1929. Allen & Unwin. Translated from the Czech by Dora Round. 187 pages. hardcover.
DESCRIPTION - Adam the Creator is a play from 1927 from the brothers Capek (1927), which shows man endeavouring to rebuild the world destroyed by robots. Adam, an unacknowledged philosopher and inventor, destroys the world using a cannon of negation, and for that he is punished by God who orders him to create a new human kind. In his work, the author shows the absurdity of extreme revolutionism, which refutes values without being able to create new values.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - Karel Capek (January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. Capek was born in Male Svatonovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Capek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language. He is perhaps best known as a science fiction author, who wrote before science fiction became widely recognized as a separate genre. He can be considered one of the founders of classical, non-hardcore European science fiction, a type which focuses on possible future (or alternative) social and human evolution on Earth, rather than technically advanced stories of space travel. However, it is best to classify him with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as a speculative fiction writer, distinguishing his work from genre-specific hard science fiction. Many of his works discuss ethical and other aspects of revolutionary inventions and processes that were already anticipated in the first half of 20th century. These include mass production, atomic weapons, and post-human intelligent beings such as robots or intelligent salamanders. In addressing these themes, Capek was also expressing fear of impending social disasters, dictatorship, violence, and the unlimited power of corporations, as well as trying to find some hope for human beings. Josef Čapek (23 March 1887 - April, 1945 ) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.
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