The Good Soldier Svejk

Name: The Good Soldier Svejk
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Jaroslav Hasek
ISBN: 9789629547837

Author: Jaroslav Hasek

Narrator: David Horovitch

Abridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 09/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Jaroslav Hasek’s world-famous satirical farce The Good Soldier Svejk has been translated into over sixty languages, and is one of the best-known Czech works ever published. A soldier in the First World War who never actually sees any combat, Josef Svejk is The Good Soldier’s awkward protagonist – and none of the other characters can quite decide whether his bumbling efforts to get to the front are genuine or not. Often portrayed as one of the first anti-war novels, Hasek’s classic satire is a tour-de-force of modernist writing, influencing later writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Joseph Heller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on March 31, 2021

I’ve read The Good Soldier Švejk twice – once when I was still adolescent and second time when I was already an adult. I enjoyed it both times, though quite differently. Everything begins on the eve of the Great War… “So they’ve killed Ferdinand,” said the charwoman to Mr. Schweik who, having left the......more

Goodreads review by MJ on August 26, 2014

The Czech antidote to Heller’s Catch-22 (a wonderful but overpraised anti-war satire), this anarchistic (and openly misogynistic) classic is bolder, bawdier, barmier and another B-bouncing word than Heller’s similar book thing. The premise here is that the balding and plump Švejk (or so he appears i......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on October 17, 2024

Una sátira de esas que no se olvidan. Hašek ilustra muy bien a Švejk, cómo se hace soldado, cómo "lucha" por el imperio austro-húngaro y todas las anécdotas que le suceden a éste. Cuando estaba en Praga, vi un restaurante llamado Švejk y me recordó inmediatamente al libro. Situaciones absurdas, por......more