Working in the 'fantastic' satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island.
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War with the Newts
Working in the 'fantastic' satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island.
Working in the 'fantastic' satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island.
KAREL ČAPEK (1890-1938) is one of the great Czechoslovak writers of the twentieth century.
What People are Saying About This
Kurt Vonnegut
God bless Catbird Press for calling the attention of Americans to a great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, clear, honorable, blackly funny, and prophetic.
Arthur Miller
It is time to read Capek again for his insouciant laughter, and the anguish of human blindness that lies beneath it.
Milan Kundera
War with the Newts will never fall into oblivion....Capek is perhaps the first European writer whose novels anticipated the gruesome vision of a totalitarian world.
