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Discover "perhaps the funniest novel ever written"(The Guardian ), now lovingly reissued from Harper Perennial Modern Classics “The classic comic novel of the First World War.” — The New Yorker • “A literary masterpiece.” — New York Review of Books • “One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.” — Boston Globe Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, "one of the great characters of 20th century literature" (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre—and often hilarious—anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.
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The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
- Language
- Released
- 2018
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- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €8.99
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0062835440
- ISBN13
- 9780062835444
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Adventure, Humor, Czech Literature, Military Fiction, Wars, Czech & Slovak history, World War I (1914–1918), Satire, Czechoslovakia, Soldiers, Švejk
- Original title
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- Discover "perhaps the funniest novel ever written"(The Guardian ), now lovingly reissued from Harper Perennial Modern Classics “The classic comic novel of the First World War.” — The New Yorker • “A literary masterpiece.” — New York Review of Books • “One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.” — Boston Globe Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, "one of the great characters of 20th century literature" (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre—and often hilarious—anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.