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War With the Newts by Karel Capek (1990, Paperback) 
War With the Newts by Karel Capek (1990, Paperback)

 
War With the Newts by Karel Capek (1990, Paperback)

Author: Karel Capek
Publisher: Catbird Pr
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0945774109
ISBN-13: 9780945774105
Product ID: EPID224778
Description: An adaptable type of newt is discovered in the East Indies and is put to work by humans; as they become more and more intelligent, they begin to resent their exploitation. The war in question begins when the newts arm themselves with exp...
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Synopsis
An adaptable type of newt is discovered in the East Indies and is put to work by humans; as they become more and more intelligent, they begin to resent their exploitation. The war in question begins when the newts arm themselves with explosives. This novel, one of the great political sci-fi classics of modern times, was published in 1936 when the Nazis were a growing threat, and many of Capek's comments on greed, exploitation, and armaments had a specific resonance in the Europe of the time.

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Publication Date:1990-02-01

Size
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek sardonically details all the reactions of the civilized world - from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism - and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape.

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"It is splendidly done. The mere verisimilitude of the account, the vivid detail that so accurately suggests the whole of the contemporary scene, is in itself an achievement; but the great merit of the book lies in its scathing irony. The methods practiced in the name of politics, economics, education and all the rest are pilloried, and discomfited by the slings and arrows of outrageous wit. It is magnificent, and if it is not war, it is a massacre, anyway, of the far from innocent."
Kahn

"The improbable premise is pursued rigorously to its conclusions, through a series of slyly comic scenes in which every kind of early twentieth-century human endeavour is subjected to Capek's courteous, lacerating satire....[W]ith a distinctive wit, Karel Capek writes in a fantastic mode, the better to reflect on pressing realities, and is both preoccupied with the reform of the human race, and bleakly sceptical as to its likelihood. Sixty-five years after this novel's first publication, its unshowy outrage, its humane ironies and its resolve to come to terms with history remain as vital as its despair."
Times Literary Supplement - Sam Thompson (11/23/2001)

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