An NU Press Title
10/7/1996
Northwestern
5 1/8 x 7 3/4, 348 pp.
Trade Paper
ISBN 0-8101-1468-2 / $22.95
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War with the Newts
Karel Capek
Working in the fantastic satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Karel Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders on an Indonesian island. Capek sardonically portrays the reactions of the civilized world-from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism-and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape.
"One of the features of a classic is that while remaining at one with its times, it reaches out beyond them. War with the Newts fully qualifies as a classic in this sense." --Michael Henry Heim, Los Angeles Times
"Capek's work has lost nothing of its freshness and luster. . . . He is as great a delight to read today as he ever was." --New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant." --T.J. Jackson Lears, Lingua Franca
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