To “svejk” has entered the Czech vocabulary, meaning to undermine authority through stupidity
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask“The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War” follows the self-proclaimed fool’s circuitous journey to the front. Jaroslav Hasek published three volumes of his anti-war satire between 1921 and 1923; he was working on a fourth when he died.
Eventually Svejk is thrown off a train heading to the eastern front in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, so decides to walk. His own side takes him for a Russian deserter and he narrowly escapes execution. He rejoins his unit, and here— before he sees combat—the novel stops.
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