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The Good Soldier Svejk

The Good Soldier Svejk Hardcover - 1993

by Jaroslav Hasek

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Good Soldier Svejk
  • Author Jaroslav Hasek
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 864
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1993
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0679420363I5N00
  • ISBN 9780679420361 / 0679420363
  • Weight 1.93 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.32 x 1.74 in (21.13 x 13.51 x 4.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects War stories, Picaresque literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92054304
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

The eponymous hero of The Good Soldier Svjek-the book for which the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek will forever be remembered-has virtually come to define, since his creation in the aftermath of World War I, the spirit of comic endurance necessary to withstand the manglings of a modern-day bureaucratic war machine. Shrewd, affable, possessed of an unerring talent for finding himself in (and extricating himself from) the most fitfully chaotic and absurd situations, Svejk represents, in his instinct for survival, all those human values which stand opposed to the utter futility of warfare.

About the author

Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923) wrote more than 2,000 short works, short stories, glosses, sketches, mostly under various pen-names. A prankster and stalwart of innumerable taverns scattered across Bohemia, Hasek was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War and spent much of the war in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp. After the war Hasek launched into writing his devastating and hilarious satire The Good Soldier Svejk, which was tragically left unfinished at his premature death and yet was, by various measures, probably unfinishable.