The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) (edit title)

NightGeometry edited the first sentence of The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) 9 days ago.

• 'And so they've killed our Ferdinand,'1Ferdinand,' said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs - ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) 9 days ago.

• Added a contributor: Jaroslev Hasek: (Primary None)

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Shelfari edited the description of The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• In The Good Soldier Svejk , celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I—although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle. Cecil Parrott’s vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jaroslav Hasek: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) Friday, July 17 2009.

• 'And so they've killed our Ferdinand,'1 said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs - ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged.