The Good Soldier Švejk, written in the aftermath of World War I by Czech humorist Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), stands as the classic satiric portrait of a little man waging war against authority.The unassuming and affable Šv...
Jaroslav Ha ek's black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22
Good-natured and garrulous, vejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War -...
Hasek wrote 'Good Soldier Svejk' in the last years of his life (1921-3), but he was established as a humorist and satirist before the First World War. This selection of stories and sketches of Prague life from that period revels in the seething, bure...
Jaroslav Hašek is known by readers around the world as the author of The Good Soldier Švejk, one of the greatest comic novels of all time. Not all of his fans are aware of his six year anabasis in Russia, however, which began with his capture on th...