ČAPEK, Karel.

£950 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Bílá nemoc (The White Plague). First edition. Written while Czechoslovakia was increasingly threatened by Nazi Germany, it depicts an unnamed country facing imminent attack and ravaged by a deadly plague. It was adapted in the same year into the film Skeleton on Horseback, directed by Hugo Haas."Completed shortly before Čapek's country collapsed under Hitler's aggression, the play can be seen as an anticipation of this outcome, formulated metaphorically - half gruesome fantasy, half dystopian image" (Klaić, p. 150).

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