Good to see Čapek getting some renewed attention! He used to be one of the two Czech authors widely known in the Anglosphere, along with Jaroslav Hašek. I liked "Newts" well enough back when I read it many years ago, but his real magnum opus is the so-called "epistemological trilogy" of novels ("Hordubal," "Meteor," "An Ordinary Life"). These are 3 very different books telling different stories, but linked by a single idea - the question of how we can know someone.
Good to see Čapek getting some renewed attention! He used to be one of the two Czech authors widely known in the Anglosphere, along with Jaroslav Hašek. I liked "Newts" well enough back when I read it many years ago, but his real magnum opus is the so-called "epistemological trilogy" of novels ("Hordubal," "Meteor," "An Ordinary Life"). These are 3 very different books telling different stories, but linked by a single idea - the question of how we can know someone.
Thank you for this comment and the information. I had never heard of these, so I've just now ordered them.
These three novels are amazing.
Amazing how much the newt interview sounds like a conversation with AI.
Great descriptions