The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War Paperback - 2005
by Jaroslav Hasek; Cecil Parrott (Translator); Introduction by Cecil Parrott
In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.
Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk 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 get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle. Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine.
'Brilliant . . . Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.'
George Monbiot
Summary
In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.
Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk 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 get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle. Cecil Parrott’s vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine.
- Introduction discusses Hasek's turbulent life as an anarchist, communist, and vagrant
- Includes a pronunciation guide to Czech names, three maps, and the original illustrations by Josef Lada
- The unabridged and unbowdlerized translation
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- Title The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War
- Author Jaroslav Hasek; Cecil Parrott (Translator); Introduction by Cecil Parrott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 752
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, NY
- Date December 27, 2005
- ISBN 9780140449914 / 0140449914
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.18 x 1.39 in (19.76 x 13.16 x 3.53 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, World War, 1914-1918 - Czechoslovakia
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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