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The Good Soldier Schweik
The Good Soldier Schweik
Author: Jaroslav Hasek
Jaroslav Hasek's comic masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk first appeared in 1920s Prague. Since then there have been countless attempts to stage this sprawling unfinished story of the apparent idiot, Svejk, who survives the horrors of World War I by undermining the institutions of state and army through his very idiocy. Max Brod, Erwin Piscator ...  more »
ISBN: 68576
Pages: 429
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Publisher: Signet
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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hardtack avatar reviewed The Good Soldier Schweik on + 2700 more book reviews
Interesting and oft-times humorous anti-war novel from after World War I. Apparently, it was very effective, as the cover states many European armies banned it from their military barracks.

Still, the situations described were often repetitious and it sometimes dragged. Plus it was overly long, as may be common with Czech writing at this period. The author was a former Czech soldier who died young from a disease he contracted during his war service.


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