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R.U.R.

Karel Čapek

Paperback | Pages: 58 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 7741 Users | 549 Reviews

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Title	:	R.U.R.
Author	:	Karel Čapek
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Dover Thrift Editions
Pages	:	Pages: 58 pages
Published	:	August 20th 2001 by Dover Publications, Inc. (first published 1920)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Plays. Classics. Fiction. Drama. European Literature. Czech Literature

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R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must attempt to learn the secret of self-duplication. But their attempts at replication leave them with nothing but bloody chunks of meat. It's not until two robots fall in love and are christened "Adam" and "Eve" by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.

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Original Title:	R.U.R.
ISBN:	0486419266 (ISBN13: 9780486419268)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Primus, Domin, Helena Glory, Sulla (robot)

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Ratings: 3.87 From 7741 Users | 549 Reviews

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Finishing R.U.R. was a bit of a chore and gets three stars, mostly on the strength of the brief pieces of dialogue between the characters. I can see how that and that alone might work with an audience. No long soliloquies. But that is all I can appreciate about R.U.R. The play itself is muddled in different genres, and makes a grandiose point in the tritest manner for its conclusion at the end of the third act. With the Epilogue, R.U.R. tries to arrive at a more meaningful conclusion than the

I'm not sure what to make of this. It's a classic of SF, the origin of the word 'robot' although the idea had been around for quite some time & the 'robot's are actually not mechanical, but biological androids more like those in "Blade Runner". The story itself oscillates wildly between extremely profound to awful. On the profound side is the entire idea. Capek encapsulates all our technological striving into one, short play. Overall, it's fantastic. There are also some great quotes:A guilty

Sigh. Where to start. Capek's play was first published in 1920. As for when it was written, how sure are we that it was in 1920 and not perhaps

This book foretells many of the dangers and desasters of modern life, including ecological destruction, artificial intelligence, autonomous devices. And it demonstrates the importance of technology impact assessment. Here robots are living creatures from the onset and the way they are treated reminds of slavery and serfdom.In contrast to the accelerated development of technology the human mind (or 'rozum' in Czech language) has not evolved much beyond premordial times. The motivation for men's

you realize that this was written in 1920, and basically created the robot sub-genre of sf, right. well, apparently not.

Theatre directors must absolutely love R.U.R. that licenses them to do absolutely anything with it. R.U.R. which is about everything also belongs to all known twentieth century literary movements: theatre de l'absurde, Dadaism, surrealism, symbolism and modernism. I agree with the critic who described it as the great masterpiece of the Czech avant-garde. The basic plot line is simple. A mad scientist invents a Robot which is more like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in that it is built with plasma

This short play is primarily of historical interest, since the story is (now) very familiar and the characterization is quite meager. The play is additionally hampered by a poor translation. I read two different editions of the play, both crediting the same translator, but found stark differences between them. The version pictured here seems more complete, but I found several passages truncated or entirely removed from the Dover Thrift Edition (go figure).If you are at all interested in the