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Jaroslav Hasek
Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts…
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Jaroslav Hasek: Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk. Grossformat in grosser Schrift Osudy dobreho vojaka Svejka za svetove valky. Hier in der UEbersetzung von Grete Reiner, 1926. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Grossformat…
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Der brave Soldat Schwejk ist ein unvollendeter und satirischer Schelmenroman von Jaroslav Hasek, der seit 1921 zunachst abschnittsweise in Heftform erschien. Hasek erzahlt uber seinen Soldatenalltag als Einjahrig-Freiwilliger im k.u.k…
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Jaroslav Hasek: Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk Osudy dobreho vojaka Svejka za svetove valky. Hier in der UEbersetzung von Grete Reiner, 1926. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin…
Jaroslav Hasek: Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk Lesefreundlicher Grossdruck in 16-pt-Schrift Grossformat, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2019 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken Osudy dobreho…
Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A…
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The Good Soldier Svejk is the abbreviated title of an unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hasek. The novel is set during World War I in Austria-Hungary, a multi-ethnic empire…
Discover perhaps the funniest novel ever written (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued
The classic comic novel of the First World War. –The New Yorker - A literary masterpiece. –New…
Presents a series of short stories based on the author’s experiences as a Red Commissar in the Russian Civil War and his return to Czechoslovakia. This title focuses on the…
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C'est comme disait l'autre jour un monsieur au restaurant ! le temps viendra ou tous ces monarques claqueront l'un apres l'autre, et meme le Procureur general n'y pourra rien. La…
Cecil Parrott
This 1982 book was the first major critical study of Jaroslav Hasek and his most important literary creation, The Good Soldier Svejk. Cecil Parrott begins from the point of view…
From Colin Teevan, an adaptation for the stage of Hasek’s ‘The Good Soldier and his Fortune in the Great War.
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4 bibliographic volumes in 3 physical volumes.
A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human…
Translates the iconoclastic Czech’s classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War.
In dem vorliegenden Band sind Beitrage tschechischer, deutscher, englischer, amerikanischer und israelischer Hasek-Forscher vereinigt, die sich bemuhen, das Werk eines der grossten Humoristen der Weltliteratur als literarische Struktur zu erfassen…
Gathering work from across Jaroslav Hasek's brief but prolific career, this collection showcases the outrageous wit and biting social commentary that made him the most popular Czech writer of all…
Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923) is known by readers around the world as the author of The Good Soldier Svejk, one of the greatest comic novels of all time. The Secret History…
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