Satirical anti-war novel in which the absurdity and hypocrisy of the military, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the church are repeatedly revealed through the main character's enthusiasm for obeying authority.
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| The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek.pdf | 24.74 MB |
| The Good Soldier Svejk, the first sketches - Jaroslav Hasek.pdf | 733.11 KB |
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Oh my god this is incredible!! I saw a load of the animation a few months ago. Thank you!
There was a two-part film made in Czechoslovakia in the '50s and in Germany in 1960 (I think). The Czech actor looks almost exactly like the drawings!
There were films? I had no idea. Links?
Great addition to library in any case.
So much love for this book. Read for the first time thirty years ago (FFFFFFUUUUU).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8T6urTz3S0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwWexJ72MbI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMehH5mCwd8
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053674/
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Soldier-Schweik-Franz-Muxeneder/dp/B00074CC14
Apparently Svejk was originally a serial character, I've added the collection of the original sketches before Hasek began the novel.
Also the site I got these from has a pretty extensive bio and collection of his writings http://socialiststories.net/writers/jaroslav-hasek/
Hmm.. I swear I've seen a version with Klaus Kinsky. Thought It was directed by Werner Herzog but I can't find any evidence of it on the interwebz.
Ah, I recently gave up defeated. It had been sitting round on my bedside table for most of the last year. Only got up to the part where the Chaplain sold him to Lieutenant Lukas, I guess that's about a third of the way through. I feel inadequate now.
This is one of the best books ever. The translation is a bit stodgy though. There is however, a new print on demand translation doing the rounds. The original Penguin translator did Hašek's The Red Commissar which contains the further adventures of Švejk and other stories. I've also got an Esperanto language collection called Ne nur Soldato Ŝvejk (Not only soldier Ŝvejk), which contains a fair bit of autobiographical stuff.
One of my favourite stories about Hašek was when he somehow got this job as editor of a nature magazine. He got fired when, for a laugh, he published articles about animals he's just made up
A great book though you have to be in the mood to really enjoy it.
‘The Bad Bohemian – The Life of Jaroslav Hasek’ (Abacus/Sphere 1983), by Sir Cecil Parrott is informative about his life, though rather ‘stuffy’ as indicated by the author’s name!
http://socialiststories.net/liberate/The%20Bad%20Bohemian%20-%20Cecil%20...
Svejk monument in Poland
http://visit.przemysl.pl/media/photo/133
So true there!
Loved it when I was younger, should give it a re-read.