David Short Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Over a generous time span, this book follows the varied lives of several high-school classmates, from their teenage growing pains to their early forties. Connoisseurs of the work of the current most popular Czech author will find intact his familiar style (the slightly melancholic grotesque), in a tale which describes, with irony and delicate nostalgia, friendship, teenage confusion, love and destiny, including dreams and hopes, first loves and marriage, disappointment and disillusion, failure and personal tragedy, not to mention the impact on life of alcohol, beauty and ugliness, and above all the sadness that slowly penetrates the lives of the characters as they age. Dodgeball is one of its author’s most successful novels, whether in terms of numbers of copies sold or the responses of critics, including some from abroad, or readers. Over 200,000 copies have been sold in the Czech Republic alone, and it has already become available in twelve other languages, including German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. It has won the Magnesia Litera Readers’ Prize and in 2015 it was turned into a successful feature film under the same title. Following Bringing up Girls in Bohemia and Bliss was it in Bohemia, this is the third of the author’s novels to appear in English translation.

An affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the 1930s and ending in the early 21st century, which weaves together a series of compelling, nostalgic anecdotes.

"R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots", scritta nel 1920, è l'opera teatrale che introduce nella cultura mondiale il termine "robot". Nella prima metà degli anni Venti si afferma sui palcoscenici di tutto il mondo con grande rapidità: nel 1921 è in scena a Praga e Aquisgrana, un anno dopo a Varsavia, Belgrado e New York, nel 1923 a Berlino, Vienna, Londra e Zurigo, nel 1924 a Parigi, Bruxelles, Stoccolma e Tokio. Utopia planetaria che coinvolge il destino dell'intera umanità, propone una riflessione sulle paure ancestrali che l'uomo del XX secolo prova di fronte alla rapidità senza precedenti con cui il progresso scientifico avanza. La creazione di un uomo artificiale, il suo sfruttamento nel mercato del lavoro e perfino lo scoppio di guerre distruttive sono all'epoca temi già noti; la grande novità del dramma tragicomico di Karel Capek consiste nel ridurre al minimo la distanza tra creatura artificiale e umana. Il robot è un operaio artificiale non meccanico, è una replica semplificata dell'uomo: nelle intenzioni dell'autore "R.U.R." è un grido d'allarme, "un ammonimento alla società tecnologica, perché si avveda in tempo del baratro in cui sta precipitando". Sarà invece l'aspetto spettacolare e drammatico della lotta tra uomini e robot a catturare l'attenzione degli spettatori e a inaugurare un filone che avrà grande successo letterario e cinematografico lungo il Novecento.

"French edition first published in Paris in 1991 as Visite privâee; Prague Czech edition published in Prague in 1992 as Méesto vidâim"--Title page verso.

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