Karel Čapek: Nine Fairy Tales - selection 3
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Karel Čapek: Nine Fairy Tales - selection 3
The selection of Čapek's fairy tales includes "professional" stories: The Great Police Fairy Tale, The Postman's Fairy Tale, The Great Doctor's Fairy Tale
They are united, among other things, by the author's sense of humour, rich language, clear points, Čapek's humanity and timelessness. From all this, the author's genius emerges. The Great Doctor's Tale contains five other tales: The Princess of Solimán, The Case of Hejkal, The Case of Havlovice the Waterman and The Case of Rusalka.
The fairy tales are read by a prominent personality of Czech culture - an actor, Screenwriter, poet, Writer, editor and moderator Miloň Čepelka, who became famous mainly as a protagonist and founding member of the Jára Cimrman Theatre. It is the first audiobook he has recorded and AudioStory presents it to Mr. Čepelka as a gift for his 80th birthday.
Karel Čapek (9.1.1890 - 25.12.1938)
A member of the literary generation, that came of age during the years of World War I, he was a journalist, a novelist, playwright, translator and critic, author of children's books. He studied at the grammar schools in Hradec Králové and Brno, graduated from the Academic Grammar School in Prague, and completed his studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague in 1915 with a doctorate.
At the time of Čapek's university studies, he published a seminal work Pragmatism or Philosophy of Practical Life (1918). In 1910 - 11 Karel Čapek was on a study stay in Paris and Berlin. After graduating from university, Karel Čapek worked as an educator for the Lažanský family, as a librarian at the National Museum, and until 1938 as an editor at Narodni listy and Lidové noviny. He worked at the Vinohrady Theatre from 1921-23 as dramaturg and director.
Karel Čapek organized friendly Friday discussions in his Vinohrady villa. Karel Čapek's wife was the actress and writer Olga Scheinpflugová. Čapek's multifaceted and extraordinarily rich work was interrupted by his sudden death. He died on 25 December 1938 in Prague of pneumonia.
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