Summary
Karel Čapek: How it happens
From the cover:
Many of our older readers must remember the book by the Czech writer Karel Čapek (1890-1938) DIARY FROM ENGLAND, which was published in 1939 in a Croatian translation in Zagreb. And they surely remember that Čapek's text HOW THE THEATER IS CREATED was also published in that book, which perhaps delighted theater people the most even though it is intended for a wide audience, as a guide through the theater. Now, here, that same text appears, with illustrations by Karel's brother Josef, in a new translation by Nikola Kršić, in the EVERGRIN library, along with two other previously unknown Čapek texts with which it forms a whole, under the common title HOW IT HAPPENS. It is about the author's attempt to humorously and unobtrusively introduce the wider audience to the creation of newspapers, films and theater. Of course, since the time when Čapek wrote these texts, a lot has changed in the printing of newspapers, the production of films and the staging of theatrical performances, but there is no doubt that even today this charming reading, accompanied by equally charming drawings, is read with undiminished pleasure.
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