# Dr. Blahous — The Absolute at Large character guide

> Dr. Blahous in The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Blahous

**First appearance:** 0011-xii-doctor-blahous

## Snapshot

A scientist whose studies of the Absolute's effects are eclipsed by his own parents' quiet, potato-peeling endurance of a world gone mad with war and inflation.

## Who they are

Dr. Blahous is the Professor whose scientific work on the Absolute is mentioned only in passing, while his elderly parents in Seven Cottages peel potatoes and marvel at candles costing fifteen hundred crowns. The gap between his learned investigations and their bewildered endurance of hyperinflation and endless war is the story's quiet tragedy. He matters because his family's mundane suffering grounds the novel's fantastical premise in the real cost of ideological chaos.

## In the story

### [Doctor Blahous](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xii-doctor-blahous)

The youthful savant and lecturer who writes a massive article on the religious epidemic, experiences a mystical moment at the window, and adds a fervent conclusion.

### [XIII: The Chronicler’s Apology](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xiii-the-chronicler-s-apology)

The chronicler regrets leaving him, wishing to describe his full career.

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