by Jaroslav Hašek · tapa dura · ISBN 9788482560120
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«Les aventures del bon soldat Svejk» is the satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek published by Proa in hardback (698 pages).
Set during the First World War, it recounts the misadventures of Švejk, a Czech soldier whose literal obedience and apparent naivety turn every order of the Austro-Hungarian army into an absurd episode. The result is an anti-war satire, full of humour and a wide gallery of colourful characters.
The work was published in 1995 in Proa's A Tot Vent collection and is a translation from Czech.
For readers interested in Central European literature, absurd humour and anti-war satires.
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.
