Karel Čapek’s Dialectical Portrayal of Knowledge in Hordubal, Meteor, and An Ordinary Life as a Response to Czechoslovak Nationalism

The trilogy of the Czech author and playwright Karel Čapek consists of the novels Hordubal, Meteor (Povětroň), and An Ordinary Life (Obyčejný Život). This thesis examines each novel in literary terms and especially its narrative techniques, with special attention to how each novel’s characters obtains understanding and knowledge as represented in the free indirect discourse within each text.