Čapek’s „Decalogue for These Great Days” as a Social and Political Manifesto to the Birth of the First Republic in 1918
Agnieszka Janiec-Nyitrai
IN: Stredoeurópske pohľady, Vol. I., Issue 1, 2019, pp. 69-75, ISSN 2644-6367 (print), ISSN-2644-6472 (online)
DOI: 10.17846/CEV.2019.01.1.69-75
Abstract:
The study is devoted to the analysis of Karel Čapek’s article „Decalogue for these great days“. Čapek published his article on the day after the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia, on the 29th of October, 1918. This text can be regarded as a manifesto of the emerging new state. Čapek is essentially very rational and does not allow himself to be too enthusiastic on the first days of independence. The program he formulates is very definite and clear. Čapek’s Decalogue carries a strong moral mission. All these aspects are analyzed in the study.
