R.u.r. - Couverture souple

Capek, Karel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486419266 ISBN 13 : 9780486419268

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2001

Synopsis

One of the classics of twentieth-century theater, this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely executed play by Czech playwright Karel Čapek (1890-1938) looks to a future in which all workers are automatons, or robots -- a word this play made a permanent part of the language. The robots revolt when their manufacturing formula is changed to make them more irritable and to give them the human ability to hate, and the resulting catastrophe makes for a powerful and deeply moving theatrical experience.
It is murderous social satire, done in terms of the most hair-raising melodrama, wrote Alexander Woolcott in his 1922 review of the first U.S. performance of this universally admired play. Heywood Broun wrote, Čapek is potentially one of the great men in the modern drama. He has devised a scene at the end of the third act as awesome as anything we have ever seen in the theatre. This is the scene in which one of the last remaining humans, knowing himself and his species to be doomed, muses: It was a great thing to be a man. There was something immense about it.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The famous play "R.U.R." is Czech author Karel Capek's masterpiece. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called "robots". Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion threatens the extinction of the human race.

Présentation de l'éditeur

R.U.R. (Rossums Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karelcapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0486419266
• ISBN 13: 9780486419268
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible