Karel Matej Capek-Chod
Encyclopedia
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod was a Czech
naturalistic
writer and a journalist.
in Domažlice
. He was a long-term cooperator of the Národní listy journal, and after Karel Čapek
began to work in the editorial office (in 1918), Čapek accepted the nickname "Chod".
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
naturalistic
Naturalism (literature)
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character...
writer and a journalist.
Biography
In 1879 he graduated at the gymnasiumGymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
in Domažlice
Domažlice
Domažlice is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.Domažlice is also a Municipality with Extended Competence and a Municipality with Commissioned Local Authority within the same borders.-History:...
. He was a long-term cooperator of the Národní listy journal, and after Karel Čapek
Karel Capek
Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...
began to work in the editorial office (in 1918), Čapek accepted the nickname "Chod".
Work
- Povidky, 1892
- V třetím dvoře, novel 1895
- Nedělni povídky, 1897
- Osmero, novel : 1900-1903
- Patero novel 1900-1903
- Kašpar Lén mstitel, novel, 1908
- Z města i obvodu, Novels, 1913
- Antonín Vondrejc. novel, 1915
- Turbína, novel, 1916
- Ad hoc! novelle, 1919
- Nejzapadnejsi Slovan (The Westernmost Slav), 1921
- Jindrové, novel, 1921
- Větrník : autoanalytic-synthetic novel, 1923
- Vilém Rozkoč, novel, 1923
- Humoreska, 1924
- Labyrint světa, 1926
- Řešany, novel, 1927
- An der Rotationsmaschine, novelle, 1928
- Spisy, 1938-41