The Good Soldier Švejk
A Humor, European Literature, Fiction book. When vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms:...
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 Austro-Hungarian 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, Svejk 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...
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- Pages: 752 pages
- ISBN: 9780140182743 / 140182748
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Vopravdu nevm, pro se ti blzni zlobj, kdy je tam dr. lovk tam me lzt nahej po podlaze, vejt jako akal, zuit a kousat. Jestli by to udlal lovk nkde na promend, tak by se lidi divili, ale tam to pat k nemu prachobyejnmu. Je tam takov svoboda, vo kerej se ani socialistm nikdy nezdlo. Jaroslav Haek, The Good Soldier vejk // Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people--masturbators of false culture... Jaroslav Haek, The Good Soldier vejk // When vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of. Jaroslav Haek, The Good Soldier vejk //
Mine is a 1943 edition of this by Penguin Books. The pages are brittle so I wasn't able to dog-ear, but all the pages are intact. Sewn-up and not merely glued, only four pages were detached. As the war was ongoing then, its back cover advertises "Penguin Specials" with titles like: "Modern Battle," "American vs. Germans," "How Russia... . ( ) . . . . . ( ) . . . . : ( ) . ( Good Soldier ) . . . . . . . I've been on a roll with my reading recently. Love having time off.Anyways - it is often said that this novel was an inspiration for Catch-22. Like Catch-22, it is hilarious. Unfortunately, it tends to go on for a little too long, also like Catch-22.The moralizing in the end does tend to break up the monotony. The book ends abruptly,...
