World War I These avant-garde efforts were interrupted by World War I. (The collection did not appear in book form until 1918.) During this period, between 19, the short pieces that comprise Krakonos's Garden were published in magazines. In 1913 they organized the Almanac for the Year 1914. In 1911, with other young artists, they founded the Society of Painters and Artists, which published a magazine While they were in Paris they both became familiar with avant-garde art, particularly cubism and futurism, and after they returned home, they were instrumental in making these forms more widely known. For eight months during 1910–1911 he took time off to visit the universities of Berlin and Paris, the latter with Josef. Between 19 he was a student at Charles University in Prague, where he studied philosophy and aesthetics as well as French, German, and English philology. He continued his schooling in Brno and Prague, finishing in 1909. He had to leave, however, when it was discovered that he was a member of a secret anarchist society anarchists support the idea of society operating without a formal governing body, which allows for complete liberty of its citizens. From 1901 to 1905 he attended the grammar school at Hradec Králové, where he was an excellent pupil. Karel and Josef wrote several stories and plays together.Īs a child Capek began showing a talent for science and art. The Capek children were all artistically gifted: Karel's sister, Helena, published several books, and his brother, Josef, was a well-known artist, fiction writer, and dramatist. His mother, Bozena Capek, collected folklore. His father, Antonín Capek, was a doctor who came from a family of farmers.

Despite his broad body of work, his most lasting contribution to international culture has proven to be a single word he coined for one of his plays: “robot.” Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĮarly Life in Bohemia Karel Capek was born in Malé Svatonovice in northeastern Bohemia on January 9, 1890. His views tended toward tolerant democracy and practical humanism, and he subscribed to the ideology of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) and to the views of its first president, Tomás Garrigue Masaryk.

He worked in many capacities: He was a man of the theater, a translator, a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer, and an organizer of cultural activities. Karel Capek is regarded as the most important Czech writer before World War II.

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