The Good Soldier Svejk
Product ID: 413445430
🌍Includes maps & Czech names guide
📚Classic Penguin paperback edition
🕰️Published 2005, timeless satire
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The Good Soldier Švejk, a Penguin Classics paperback published in 2005, is an unabridged English translation by Cecil Parrott of Jaroslav Hašek’s seminal satirical novel. Featuring original illustrations, maps, and a guide to Czech names, this edition offers a rich historical and cultural context. Praised for its biting humor and anti-war message, it remains a must-read for fans of literary satire and historical fiction.
| Best Sellers Rank | #145,740 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #208 in Drama & Play Types #269 in Satire #513 in War Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 329 Reviews |
C**Y
Great Book
Wonderful to be able to buy this book again. A very amusing book.
A**A
A rather comic but rambling expose on the ultimate inadequacy of War
This book ia a rambling account of Svejk, a Czech underling who enlisted in the Austro Hungarian army in the 1st world war as the batman of a lieutenant, and his adventures while en route to the battle front. Rather in the same vein as Tom Jones i.e. the picaresque tradition of English novels. While full of hilarious and improbable incidents described tongue in cheek and sprinkled with profanities and sexual encounters,it tends to drag a bit after some time, the incidents becoming predictable and repetative. Difficult to finish at one go. The underlying anti-war values and ultimate futility of war portrayed are for all times though.
V**F
this is a classic
The book is not for ladies. Witty, smart, very blunt and not politically correct. Humor is salty and sometimes even vulgar but never the less very truthful. Expose the ugliness of the war through the life of the small man thrown in to big military machine in the beginning and through the WWI.
D**S
Kalfaktorns kultivering till köks
Jaroslav Hasek är evigt okonstlat oetisk, jordnära jovial och tecknande tärande - väl värd läsning till öl på U Kalicha i Prag...
B**Ó
Very Good Introductory Chapter
Definitely worth buying - if only for the introduction. To me this served as very useful additional background info to the German translations I read before.
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