1. The Love of Reading
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dc.contributor.authorČapek, Josef-
dc.contributor.authorČapek, Karel-
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T17:02:51Z-
dc.date.available2022-03-03T17:02:51Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.urihttps://tlor.svkos.cz/handle/123456789/343-
dc.description.abstractictures from the Insects' Life – also known as The Insect Play, The Life of the Insects, The Insect Comedy, The World We Live In and From Insect Life – is a satirical play that was written in Czech by the Brothers Čapek (Karel and Josef), who collaborated on 4 stage works, of which this is the most famous. It was published in 1921 and premiered in 1922. In the play, a tramp/narrator falls asleep in the woods and dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behaviour leads to a militaristic society. The anthropomorphized insects allow the writers to comment allegorically on life in post-World War I Czechoslovakia. - Summary by Wikipedia. Translated from Czech by Paul Selver.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherProject Gutenbergen_US
dc.rightsPUBLIC DOMAIN This work is in Public Domain and no exclusive intellectual property rights apply to it in the countries of this e-library project. These rights has expired or been forfeited. Anyone can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking a permission. Still, who would like to use this text or quote a part of it, he or she is obliged to cite its author and source.en_US
dc.subjectCzech dramaen_US
dc.subjectcomedyen_US
dc.subjectinsectsen_US
dc.titleThe Life of the Insectsen_US
dc.title.alternativeAnd so Ad Infinitumen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Life of the Insects: An Entomological Review, in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogueen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Insect Comedyen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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