War with the Newts

by Karel Capek

Overview

Nauchno-fantasticheskij roman «Vojna s salamandrami» rasskazyvaet o stolknovenii mira lyudej s mirom salamandr. Ponachalu simpatichnye i mirnye zemnovodnye ocharovyvayut lyudej, kotorye delyatsya s nimi svoimi znaniyami i navykami. Salamandr ispol'zuyut dlya razvitiya promyshlennosti, rasshireniya territorij i modernizacii vooruzhennyh sil. Eti milye zhivotnye okazyvayutsya ochen' smyshlenymi sushchestvami i uspeshno perenimayut nakoplennyj opyt, chtoby v odin iz dnej zayavit' o svoih pravah i postavit' pod ugrozu sushchestvovanie vsego chelovechestva.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785605012801
Publisher:	Soyuz
Publication date:	02/05/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	16 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

Capek's work has lost nothing of its freshness and luster...He is as great a delight to read today as ever.

New York Times Book Review

Brilliant.

Jackson

One of the features of a classic in that while remaining at one with its times, it reaches out beyond them. War with the Newts fully qualifies as a classic in this sense. -- Los Angeles Times

Michael Henry Heim

A bracing parody of totalitarianism and technological overkill, one of the most amusing and provocative books in its genre.”  —Philadelphia Inquirer


"Appreciation of this classic novel." —New York Times​, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/books/in-praise-of-karel-capek.html

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