Továrna na Absolutno – Čapek Karel (2021)

No matter which book we read, we seek our contemporaries in it, answers to the questions posed by our time, we seek ourselves. And we find – perhaps in Karel Čapek, whose uniqueness lies in his ability to uncover, seemingly with ease and without effort, the great themes of the era that still interest us today, even though a hundred years have passed since the writing of The Absolute at Large, which represents four generations. Judge for yourself. A newly invented machine is capable of producing energy from almost any material. And not just energy – it simultaneously releases a miraculous force, under whose influence people achieve great feats, improve morally, and suddenly become happy. Production is in full swing, and society is flooded with goods of all kinds. However, the printing presses for banknotes and securities are also running at full capacity... Inflation follows, the global financial system collapses, and trade must revert to bartering. A sack of potatoes for a gold watch. To top it all off, even responsible state authorities begin to hallucinate, performing strange rituals instead of rational actions and issuing laws that contradict each other like a conveyor belt. The world has plunged into chaos... Let us emphasize the language of Čapek's books. It is simple and understandable, as if they were published recently.