The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War - Translated by Cecil Parrott. With Original Illustrations by Josef

Discover "perhaps the funniest novel ever written" ( The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued "The classic comic novel of the First World War." -- The New Yorker - "A literary masterpiece." -- New York Review of Books - "One of the greatest works of 20th century literature." -- Boston Globe Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, "one of the great characters of 20th century literature" ( New Republic ), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre--and often hilarious--anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.

Product details

• Authors: Jaroslav Hasek
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780062835444
• ISBN: 978-0-06-283544-4
• No. of pages: 784
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Humorous fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), First World War fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: War & Military, FICTION: Historical / World War I, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, FICTION: World Literature / Europe (General), Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION: World Literature / Germany / 20th Century, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Literature in Translation