Good Soldier Svejk

Informationen zum Autor Besides this book, the writer wrote more than 2,000 short works, short stories, glosses, sketches, mostly under various pen-names. Klappentext An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the ANCIEN REGIME of the Austro-Hungarian empire, THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier whose sheer determination to survive brings into question the mighty social and political institutions he confronts. Set in a Central Europe which has long since vanished, Hasek's novel is nevertheless a timeless portrait of the 'little man' doughtily waging his own war against authority Zusammenfassung An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the ANCIEN REGIME of the Austro-Hungarian empire, THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier whose sheer determination to survive brings into question the mighty social and political institutions he confronts.

Product details

• Authors: Jaroslav Hasek, Hasek Jaroslav, Hasek Jaroslav
• Assisted by: Cecil Parrott (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.1993
• EAN: 9781857151510
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-151-0
• No. of pages: 800
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 211 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS; Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Austro-Hungarian Empire