Krakatit

Von Karel Capek

Kare Capeks Roman befasst sich bereits 1924 mit den Risiken und Gefahren der Atomenergie. Ein verwirrter Wissenschaftler experimentiert mit dem Element Krakatit und bringt damit die Welt an den Rand der nuklearen Apokalypse ...

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Jazzybee Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14. Okt. 2013
• ISBN: 9783849623609

Karel Capek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.