War with Salamander

The novel-antiopia of the Czech writer Karel Chapek (1890-1938) is a symbiosis of science fiction and political satire. Talking the fictional story of the discovery of the type of giant smart tritons, their "evolution" and elevation to the creatures equal to man, Chapek ridicules science, education, politics, law, religion and philosophy ... Everything that the old woman Europe stood and stands on. The heyday of the Salamander community, their golden age, portends the end of human civilization, which has chosen the path of discrimination, operation, violence and cruelty.
The book will make you laugh ... and cry when you understand how little the world has changed since 1936, when it was written