as a whole. R.U.R. became influential soon after its publication.

By 1923, it had been translated into thirty languages. R.U.R. was successful in its time in Europe and North America. Capek later took a different approach to the same theme in his 1936 novel War with the Newts, in which non-humans become a servant-class in human society.

Characters

Parentheses indicate names which vary according to translation. On the meaning of the names, see Ivan Klíma: Karel Capek: Life

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