David Short Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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", écrite en 1920, est l'œuvre théâtrale qui introduit dans la culture mondiale le terme "robot". Utopie planétaire qui implique le destin de l'humanité entière, elle propose une réflexion sur les peurs ancestrales que l'homme du XXe siècle ressent face à la rapidité sans précédent du progrès scientifique. La création d'un homme artificiel, son exploitation sur le marché du travail et même le déclenchement de guerres destructrices sont des thèmes déjà connus à l'époque ; la grande nouveauté du drame tragicomique de Karel Čapek réside dans la réduction de la distance entre créature artificielle et humaine. Le robot est un ouvrier artificiel non mécanique, une réplique simplifiée de l'homme : selon l'auteur, "R.U.R." est un cri d'alarme, un avertissement à la société technologique pour qu'elle prenne conscience à temps du gouffre dans lequel elle est en train de tomber. L'aspect spectaculaire et dramatique de la lutte entre hommes et robots captivera l'attention des spectateurs et inaugurera un courant qui connaîtra un grand succès littéraire et cinématographique tout au long du XXe siècle.

"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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