performances. October – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first novel Mafarka il futurista is cleared of obscenity charges. Fall – Damon Runyon begins working...

writer Karel Čapek invented the term robot. In 1910 his first novel, Mafarka il futurista, was cleared of all charges by an obscenity trial. That year, Marinetti...

novels, Gli indomabili [The Untameables] (Mondadori, 2000) and Mafarka il futurista [Mafarka the Futurist] (Mondadori, 2003). He has also compiled bilingual...