The Good Soldier Svejk
and his fortunes in the world war
$26.68
- Paperback
784 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2005
Summary
The Good Soldier Svejk: A Hilarious антигерой in the Great War
Joseph Heller credited The Good Soldier Svejk as a major influence on Catch-22. This deeply funny story centers on Svejk, a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. Dismissed as incompetent, he’s ironically pressed into service and even captured by his own side during World War I.
Hasek’s Svejk, a mischievous bohemian and drunk, brilliantly embodies the Czech character while lampoonin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449914 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449914 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Josef Lada, Cecil Parrott, Jaroslav Hašek |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 784 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 537g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Josef Lada
Jaroslav Hasek (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, Hasek 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 Hasek launched into writing his devastating and hilarious satire The Good Soldier Svejk, which was tragically left unfinished at his premature death and yet was, by various measures, probably unfinishable.
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