The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War
Translated by Cecil Parrott. With Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.
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 York Review of Books • ?One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.? ? Boston Globe Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk 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" ( New Republic ), 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 Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.
ISBN/EAN | 9780062835444 |
Auteur | Hasek, Jaroslav |
Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 784 |
Lengte | 203.0 mm |
Breedte | 127.0 mm |