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Roses for Algernon

Charlie's IQ of 68 suddenly went up to 185. Can he help himself? Keyes' indictment of irresponsible science in the legendary Roses for Algernon.

Baker's helper Charlie Gordon is mentally retarded, which doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't want to get better at life like anyone else. And because he has an amazing motivation to learn, science will choose him as the first human being whose intelligence will be increased operationally. In the laboratory environment, the young man is given the task of keeping a diary and also a companion: Algernon mouse, which will be his control and sparring partner in the experiments.
The experiment will be a success. Charlie not only invents improvements and uncovers thieves in the bakery, but even surpasses the creators of his penetrating intellect. However, high intelligence also implies greater doubt and loneliness. What's the genius robinson ghost going to do now? Was he just a plaything in the hands of behavioral psychologists who used him as a rat to test a hypothesis?
Keyes' indictment of irresponsible science is one of the 100 most acclaimed works of SF and has received numerous film, stage and radio adaptations. Among them are the American film Charly (1968) with Cliff Robertson, which won an Oscar and a Golden Globe, and the 2000 film with Matthew Modine. In this country, the most famous version is the theatre version with Jan Potmeshil, who also appears in this audiobook.

They wrote about Roses for Algernon

"I would love to write a story like that one day."

Isaac Asimov

Daniel Keyes

The small legacy of a representative of postwar American fiction still astonishes with its prophetic insight. A Brooklyn native, a graduate of New York University in psychology and English and a high school teacher - he also taught special needs students - he had been publishing in the quarterly Marvel Science Stories since he was a young man, and all of this inspired him to write the short story "A Rose for Algernon" (1959, no. first time 1976). The text, printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the top genre award, the Hugo, the following year, and, when expanded into a novel (no. 2000) and the elite Nebula Award 1967. Yet the conservative states of the Union wanted to remove the work from the golden fund of SF from public libraries because of its alleged attack on serious science. Although the author then turned to thrillers and detective stories, he focused on the theme of split personality in his novels The Fifth Sally (1980), The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981), The Milligan Wars (1994) and The Asylum Prophecies (2009).

Jan Potmešil

He appeared in front of the camera as an exceptionally talented boy (The Woman Behind the Counter, The Secret of the Steel City), although it wasn't until his studies at the DAMU that he had significant opportunities with the ballad Bony and Peace, the football drama Why? and the fairy tale About Princess Jasněnka and the Flying Shoemaker (all 1987). When he became paralysed after a car accident during the November Revolution, his further acting career seemed impossible, and yet he returned to his profession despite his wheelchair as a member of the Kašpar Theatre Society, operating within the Theatre in Celetná. For his portrayal of Shakespeare's King Richard III. He won the Alfréd Radok Prize 2000 and subsequently took on the role of, e.g. the role of King Claudius in Hamlet. He also performs in the Lyra Pragensis staged readings and has loaded an audio version of the biblical Gospel of St John. Occasionally he returns to the screen - among others. in the films In the Crest of the Lioness, The Name of the Code: Ruby, Bolero or Jacob. He is one of our leading human rights activists. It has been bringing the tragedy of Charlie Gordon to audiences on its home stage since 1993, and has currently seen nearly 870 performances.