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The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller''s Catch-22, Jaroslav Hašek''s black satire The Good Soldier Švejk is translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott in Penguin Classics.
Good-natured and garrulous, Ã… vejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army''s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards, getting drunk and becoming a general nuisance, the resourceful Ã… vejk uses all his natural cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the doctors, police, clergy and officers who chivvy him towards battle. The story of a ''little man'' caught in a vast bureaucratic machine, The Good Soldier Ã… vejk combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.
Cecil Parrott''s vibrant, unabridged and unbowdlerized translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Hašek''s turbulent life as an anarchist, communist and vagranty, and the Everyman character of Švejk. This edition also includes a guide to Czech names, maps and original illustrations by Josef Ladas.
Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) Besides this book, the writer wrote more than 2,000 short works, short stories, glosses, sketches, mostly under various pen-names.
If you enjoyed The Good Soldier Ã… vejk, you might like Mikhail Bulgakov''s The Master and Margarita, also available in Penguin Classics.
''Brilliant ... perhaps the funniest novel ever written''
George Monbiot
''Hašek was a comic genius''
Sunday Times
''Hašek was a humorist of the highest calibre....A later age will perhaps put him on a level with Cervantes and Rabelais''
Max Brod
ISBN: 9780140449914
ISBN-10: 0140449914
Series: Penguin Classics
Published: 26th April 2005
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 784
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 3.5 x 12.9 x 19.9
Weight (kg): 0.54
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