Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work. Written with letters and other material not available to earlier biographers and critics, Klima reflects on the effects of the author's personal relationships and scrutinizes his artistic and philosophical influences. This is not merely a biography or a critical work covering all of Capek's writings; it is a ...
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Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work. Written with letters and other material not available to earlier biographers and critics, Klima reflects on the effects of the author's personal relationships and scrutinizes his artistic and philosophical influences. This is not merely a biography or a critical work covering all of Capek's writings; it is a wide-ranging study of the life and work of a great artist as examined from the perspective of another eminent writer who grew up in Capek's shadow.
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NF in NF jacket. Octavo. Midnight blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny light blue foil lettering on the spine. Book has a very faint bump at the head and tail of the spine and at the extreme tip of the upper front outside corner. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 259 pages, plus a bibliography of Capeks works in the English language, along with their titles in the original Czech. Dust Jacket-has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine-jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Capek the author of many things, but best known among them are probably either his novel War With the Newts or his play R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots.
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NEAR FINE IN WRAPS. ADVANCED UNCORRECTED PROOFS / TRANSLATED FROM THE CZECH BY NORMA COMRADA. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK AND SLIGHT READER'S CREASING TO THE SPINE.
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