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Title: R. U. R. and the Insect Play
by Josef Capek, Karel Capek
ISBN: 0192810103
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pub. Date: 1961
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 4
Summary: Historically brilliant, literarily flawed
Comment: R.U.R. is an immensely important book for its contributions to our language and our perception. Equally, it is excellent commentary on the mechanization of work, and the quest to turn people into simple, perfect machines.

Nonetheless, this translation falls short as literature. Devoid of irony and wit, and possessing only a simple, transparent plot, R.U.R. does not equal the standard set by Capek himself with "War with the Newts."

Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic
Comment: In the play RUR, the brothers Capek coined the word Robot as meaning mechanical man for the first time. The play probes the ethical issues of humaniod robots and what constitutes humanity, life and the human soul and spirit. Written just before WWII the Insect Play is a wonderful fantasy full of political allegory and social commentary. It is important to keep in mind when reading the Insect Play that Josef Capek died in a Nazi concentration camp.

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