The Good Soldier Švejk: Jaroslav Hašek’s comic masterpiece

S motivem Švejka se lze setkat na několika místech i v Praze, foto: Steve Collis, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 |

Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk is a classic of not just Czech but world literature. Is soldier Josef Švejk employing exaggerated zeal to cunningly mock the Austro-Hungarian army’s war effort? Or is he genuinely slow-witted? The 1920s comic masterpiece leaves it to the reader to decide.
Ian Willoughby

15:53 19. února 2020, 13:56

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