Yet, as Ivan Klima says in his new, welcome biographical study, Capek was, with Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek (the author of ''The Good Soldier Svejk'') ''among the
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Hasek's novel is a combination of satire, pure comedy, social criticism, nationalistic sentiment, and pacifism
Set in Czechoslovakia during World War I, the story follows the misadventures of
Svejk is the quintessential soldier, a survivor who has no interest in politics and the disputes of the Great Powers
Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Vaněk; illustrations Petr Urban
Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk 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
London, Heinemann, 1930
Dobrý voják Švejk (1926, silent) (The Good Soldier Svejk) directed by Karel Lamač
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A copy of The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War —a classic comedy by Jaroslav Hašek, a countryman, contemporary and peer of Franz Kafka—is never far from my desk
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The Good Soldier Schweik, satiric war novel by Jaroslav Hašek, published in Czech as Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války in four volumes in 1921–23
Bertolt Brecht is reported to have named it one of the The Good Soldier Svejk follows Josef Svejk ("one of the great characters of 20th century literature"--New Republic), a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, through the trials of World War I
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The good soldier Švejk by Hašek, Jaroslav, 1883-1923; Parrott, Cecil, 1909-1984
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Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian armys most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War
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