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The Luminous Depths
The Luminous Depths
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In Brno, Czechoslovak Republic, 1931. Eight years before the Nazi invasions . . .
At the Theater on the Ramparts, a performance of the world-famous robot play R.U.R is in rehearsal, attended grudgingly by its author, Karel Capek. A former master of science fiction, Capek not devotes himself to the here-and-now, writing small works vital to his beloved Republic. He finds little real pleasure in the proceedings, but for the contributions of his brother Josef, a renowned avant-garde artist, and Pavel Haas, a disciple of the late eccentric composer, Maestro Leos J——.
Yet in the midnight streets of the city, Haas has found a luminous enigma; or rather, it has found him, floating down out of the starry sky. Once activated it carries Haas, as well as the Brothers Capek, the actors, robots and musicians, into a nghtmarish world of Occupation, of immense devastation and fecund marvels, of dire transport East, setting in motion of terrifying siege and a phantasmagorical night journey leading from the Theater on the Ramparts to the lonely and now-forgotten cottage Leos J—.
The Luminous Depths is the second in Herter’s First Republic Trilogy, preceded by On the Overgrown Path and followed by One Who Disappeared, now available.
At the Theater on the Ramparts, a performance of the world-famous robot play R.U.R is in rehearsal, attended grudgingly by its author, Karel Capek. A former master of science fiction, Capek not devotes himself to the here-and-now, writing small works vital to his beloved Republic. He finds little real pleasure in the proceedings, but for the contributions of his brother Josef, a renowned avant-garde artist, and Pavel Haas, a disciple of the late eccentric composer, Maestro Leos J——.
Yet in the midnight streets of the city, Haas has found a luminous enigma; or rather, it has found him, floating down out of the starry sky. Once activated it carries Haas, as well as the Brothers Capek, the actors, robots and musicians, into a nghtmarish world of Occupation, of immense devastation and fecund marvels, of dire transport East, setting in motion of terrifying siege and a phantasmagorical night journey leading from the Theater on the Ramparts to the lonely and now-forgotten cottage Leos J—.
The Luminous Depths is the second in Herter’s First Republic Trilogy, preceded by On the Overgrown Path and followed by One Who Disappeared, now available.
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