Based on  the novel ,by `+Karel Cap #:ek, the , pro$minen)t Czech writer o\  f the *(/e;$arly .20th century who]) co)ine 
d ! t;`he word rob.o`[^t for]$ his *[?play R.U. 
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;y +)revo!lv=e?_s aro]?u@)nd a discove
r)y of K ra/kati_:t - a pow erful explosi ve_= - by Prokop, an experiment./=al scientist who, _?f\o`*@ ll`:owing an ^ac[cidental explos!+ion/ in his la (b, slips in ;#and out of, de?  lirium. Whe_
n he r#-e(alises that, in a delirious per*
iod, he #-h ;as %+\given ^the f_ ormula for making;_ )Krakatit, to one of /!hi#s c-%o#,lleagues;, @ he tr!=ies to find@. the m +an, who does not realize how da^\ngerous a +?..thing Krakat$it is. +In t%*he proces_=s, he nearly giv@?=es .his discovery )away aga[: \in _$+to foreign! i/nteres_t!s, a group of [anarchi]+$)sts , and even  greate#\r force,s of darkne:ss...