· When Karel Capek's play Bila Nemoc or The White Plague first came out in , it was seen as a warning against the dangers of fascism, which was sweeping through Europe at that time. It Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. White Disease is the fictional disease in Karel Capek's play The White Plague. Abstract. Though written amid an atmosphere of unprecedented medical advance in both diagnosis and therapeutics, Karel Čapek's The White Plague takes a starkly critical stance against overconfidence in medical science and its dubious ethical orbit. This article explores Čapek's censure of those who would privilege scientific interest in disease over the holistic plight of the www.doorway.ru: Alexis Soloski.
Karel Čapek, Czech novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist. The son of a country doctor, Čapek suffered all his life from a spinal disease, and writing seemed a compensation. He studied philosophy in Prague, Berlin, and Paris and in settled in Prague as a writer and journalist. Based on a play by Karel Čapek. The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek. The White Disease is based on the play by Czech author Karel Čapek, the same one who gave the world the word "Robot", and one of the few representatives of science fiction literature who wrote from dramaturgy. You can watch the entire film here: (I'm sorry, I could not find one with English subtitles.).
The White Plague is a play written by Czech novelist Karel Čapek in Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people older than It was adapted as the film Skeleton on Horseback by Hugo Haas. Čapek’s penultimate play, ‘The White Disease’ (Bílá nemoc), first performed in January , was a dark satirical send-up of fascism and opportunism, set against the backdrop of a deadly pandemic. Between the two world wars, Karel Čapek was the Czech nation’s leading novelist, playwright, newspaper columnist, travel writer and critic. Čapek’s penultima.
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