Good Soldier Svejk

Informationen zum Autor Jaroslav Hašek (Author) Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) wrote more than 2,000 short works, short stories, glosses, sketches, mostly under various pen-names. A prankster and stalwart of innumerable taverns scattered across Bohemia, Hašek was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War and spent much of the war in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp. After the war Hašek launched into writing his devastating and hilarious satire The Good Soldier Švejk, which was tragically left unfinished at his premature death and yet was, by various measures, probably unfinishable. Klappentext In "The Good Soldier Svejk," celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I?although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle. Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine. ?Brilliant . . . Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.? ?George Monbiot Zusammenfassung Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it.

Product details

• Authors: Jaroslav Hasek, Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Lada, Cecil Parrott
• Assisted by: Josef Lada (Illustration), Lada Josef (Illustration), Cecil Parrott (Introduction), Cecil Parrott (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2005
• EAN: 9780140449914
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044991-4
• No. of pages: 784
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / War & Military, Fiction in translation, Satirical fiction and parodies