War with Salamander. Chapek K.

Karel Chapek is one of the most famous Czech writers. He is the author of novels, stories, plays, feuilletons created with inexhaustible fantasy and brilliant humor who conquered the hearts of readers of many countries of the world. This collection includes the most famous works of the author: the best stories, a fantastic play “R. U. R. “(it is in it that the word“ robot ”that came up with the chapek for the first time, and the plot so familiar to us today about the uprising of cars against people is born) and, finally, the novel“ War with Salamanders ”, presented for the first time in a new translation. A bright, bizarre, unusual story about salamanders discovered on the lost islands by Captain Van Toho, is considered the pinnacle of Chapek’s work and one of the best novels of the twentieth century.