The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book One
Švejk represents one of the most unique and successful survival strategies ever conceived by man.
Joseph Heller said that if it weren't for his having read The Good Soldier Švejk he would never had written his American novel Catch-22.
The only Czech book on most 100 Best Books of the 20th Century lists.
This is a new translation by Zdenek K. Sadlon and Emmett M. Joyce.
The Good Soldier Švejk is a picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and to enjoy life in the face of the endless absurdities imposed on him by the effects of the complex institutions of modern society that magnify the rational and moral shortcomings of individuals in direct proportion to their positions in the hierarchies they are a part of.
"Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence." - Peter Steiner
"Those people who wanted the novel banned in the newly independent Czechoslovakia (after World War I) and elsewhere, some of whom succeeded, were quite correct to see it as more than a satire on war and militarism (although it is that, as well, of course) the book is a very funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control and, equally important, on the various justifications such bureaucracies offer for their own existence." - Ian Johnston
FictionWar & MilitaryClassicsHumorousSatireCultural Heritage
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERGood Soldier Švejk
LENGTH223
LANGUAGEEN
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature.
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book One
by Jaroslav Hašek, Zdeněk "Zenny" K. Sadlon
Švejk represents one of the most unique and successful survival strategies ever conceived by man.
Joseph Heller said that if it weren't for his having read The Good Soldier Švejk he would never had written his American novel Catch-22.
The only Czech book on most 100 Best Books of the 20th Century lists.
This is a new translation by Zdenek K. Sadlon and Emmett M. Joyce.
The Good Soldier Švejk is a picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and to enjoy life in the face of the endless absurdities imposed on him by the effects of the complex institutions of modern society that magnify the rational and moral shortcomings of individuals in direct proportion to their positions in the hierarchies they are a part of.
"Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence." - Peter Steiner
"Those people who wanted the novel banned in the newly independent Czechoslovakia (after World War I) and elsewhere, some of whom succeeded, were quite correct to see it as more than a satire on war and militarism (although it is that, as well, of course) the book is a very funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control and, equally important, on the various justifications such bureaucracies offer for their own existence." - Ian Johnston
FictionWar & MilitaryClassicsHumorousSatireCultural HeritageHistoricalWorld War I
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERGood Soldier Švejk
LENGTH223
LANGUAGEEN
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature.
