Talks with T.G. MasarykNever have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomás Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (1890-1938), the leading Czech writer of the time. Capek interviewed Masaryk over a number of years and produced a single narrative that tells Masaryk's incredible story in a voice as ordinary yet magical as the best of Capek's fictional characters. The result is a biographical work like no other, in form or in content. |
Contents
Masaryks Life xii New Projects | 123 |
Silence with Prague | 132 |
T G Masaryk 15 Interests | 140 |
TALKS WITH At Work and in Strife | 153 |
Youth The Nineties | 160 |
to 1910 | 176 |
The PreWar Years | 190 |
Children on Their Own 40 | 196 |
A Year in the Country 54 London | 208 |
Childhood and 1917 | 216 |
Schooldays The Wars End | 230 |
Apprenticeship 68 | 236 |
Vienna 85 | 241 |
On Schools 92 Notes | 250 |
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