by Jaroslav Hasek · tapa dura · ISBN 9788415863571
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The Good Soldier Švejk is a satirical novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in installments between 1921 and 1923, and later compiled into four volumes. The work narrates the misadventures of Josef Švejk, a Czech soldier who, despite his apparent naivety and clumsiness, uses his cunning to survive in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. The novel is a scathing critique of bureaucracy, war, and the society of the time, and has become a classic of Czech and universal literature.
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, an unfinished novel about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature.
