{"product_id":"the-good-soldier-svejk-and-his-fortunes-in-the-world-war-translated-by-cecil-parrott-with-original-illustrations-by-josef-lada-isbn-9780062835444","title":"The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. With Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover \"perhaps the funniest novel ever written\" (\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e), now beautifully reissued\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The classic comic novel of the First World War.” —\u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e • “A literary masterpiece.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e • \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.” —\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaroslav Hasek's \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, \"one of the great characters of 20th century literature\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre—and often hilarious—anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e by a generation, \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Hasek was a comic genius.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant. ... Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Monbiot, The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The classic comic novel of the First World War.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Svejk] is one of the great characters of 20th-century literature. ... [Hasek’s] satire on the military combines topicality and timelessness. Above all it captures the flavor of life in early-century Prague. ... Deserves to be relished for its offbeat wisdom. ... Hasek’s honesty, clarity of detail, and pawky restraint have made \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e a near classic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Svejk] is one of the great characters of 20th-century literature. ... [Hasek] captures the flavor of life in early-century Prague. ... Hasek’s honesty, clarity of detail, and pawky restraint have made \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e a near classic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All the good adjectives apply to [this novel]: robust, bawdy, sly, hugely comic and astonishingly inventive; it is also singularly undemanding on its readers. ... A very funny novel and a wise one.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Continues to have an astonishing afterlife. ... Commonly cited as an ancestor of Joseph Heller’s \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e... [its] continued resonance suggests how deep a nerve Hasek touched. His comic hero highlights the illogic of war so brilliantly that Svejk’s character has been absorbed into Western culture.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] comic masterpiece. ... Joseph Heller once told [Czech writer Arnost Lustig] at a New York party for Milos Forman in the late Sixties that he could not have written \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e without first reading Hasek’s unfinished World War One satire.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] comic masterpiece.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rich and ranging, endlessly inventive. ... The predicaments of Svejk in an absurd world still continue. And the laughter echoes.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Without Svejk, Joseph Heller has said, there would have been no \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Joseph Heller’s literary predecessor. ... Jaroslav Hasek’s classic \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e set the bar for 20th-century military satire.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the masterpieces of Czech comic literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A literary masterpiece.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anyone in power, including the president, would benefit from Jaroslav Hasek’s \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e, which is set during the First World War in Austria-Hungary. First because it would make them laugh, and then because it is the best antiwar novel I know, hilariously dramatizing the pointlessness of empires and the foolishness of military goals and the sheer absurdity and cruelty of people waging war on each other.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColm Toibin, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anyone in power, including the president would benefit from Jaroslav Hasek’s \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e. ... 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