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Translating untranslated tales by Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923), to take the edge off the end times.

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Bookmarked for later. But read it now if you have time!
February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We’ve just dropped a brand new Hašek translation for your reading delight.

Don’t miss out on its English-language debut:

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The Naked Boy
It was late in the evening. No one was bathing any longer in the Vltava River. I was getting dressed on the bank, on the outskirts of Modřany, with the intent of going to the steamboat landing near…
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February 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Happy birthday to Czech antifascist resister and Jaroslav Hašek scholar Julius Fučik, who was famously tortured and murdered by Nazis, only to be slandered thereafter by Cold War liberals, who resented him for being celebrated by comrades as a paragon of proletarian virtue and resilience
February 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Got a cool new (old) short story collection containing what appear to be some unfamiliar tales
February 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Have you read the great satirical novel, "The Good Soldier Schweik" by Czech author Jaroslav Hasek? Written after WWI, Hasek satirizes all the sacred cows, esp church, army, police. The [seemingly] guileless hero is Everyman with a peasant’s eye for survival. I’ve never laughed so hard. I needed it
February 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Thinking of the finest soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, the Czech anarchist Jaroslav Hašek, who surrendered to the Russians and became a Bolshevik commissar.
February 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Well it is Saturday and it's no longer dry January, so

“I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk
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February 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

3/20

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Cover for "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek
January 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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May I recommend The Good Soldier Švejk on this fine day?

An unfinished novel by Jaroslav Hašek, it is a hilarious account of passive resistance/malicious compliance set in WWI.
January 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Check out The Man Without a Transit Pass by Jaroslav Hasek, just wild absurd short stories. Or any of Hiroko Oyamada's books (I really dug The Factory and Weasels in the Attic)
January 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Jaroslav Hašek says good afternoon. Or rather: Dobré odpoledne!
Jaroslav Hašek says good afternoon. Or rather: Dobré odpoledne!
January 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Cover of 'The Good Soldier Švejk' by Jaroslav Hašek
January 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Explanations! Reviews! Not just covers! (12/20)
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The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
"The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek
January 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Last book of the old year (ok, a couple of chapters today). Book list tells me I've read it before, in 1997, but I can remember a general vibe. Our summer trip to Prague inspired me to revisit, and yep, it's damn good. No surprise that it was a huge (WW1) influence on Catch 22.
A 1950s Penguin edition of "The Good Soldier Schweik" (or Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek.
January 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Jaroslav Hašek left this world 102 years ago this day, leaving Švejk—his masterpiece—unfinished
January 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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read The Good Soldier Svejk in highschool by printing out in the entire book off a libcom pdf in 3×3, resulting in extremely small text, but bringing page count down to about 100 pgs, within my yearly printer limit. this is also how i read The Conquest of Bread
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sleepytime bear is a false image spread by Urantian bourgeois tea magnates to lull the working class into restfulness and acceptance of their class status. real proletarian winter coziness is exemplified by Comrade Svejk
December 23, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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Christmas Eve at the Orphanage, by Jaroslav Hašek

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Christmas Eve at the Orphanage
On Christmas Day, the orphan boy Pazourek found himself locked in a pantry, in which two sacks of flour were stored and—as Pazourek noticed to his delight—numerous sacks of prunes besides. This dis…
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December 24, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Elige 20 libros que han estado contigo o te han marcado.
Un libro por día, durante 20 días, sin orden específico.
Sin explicaciones, sin reseñas, sólo la portada.

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Día 17
Las aventuras del buen soldado Svejk, de Jaroslav Hasek.
December 12, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11

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Book cover of The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek.
December 11, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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Cover eines alten Buchs, Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk von Jaroslav Hašek
December 11, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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5/20 - Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk
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December 5, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Day 9 - Jaroslav Hašek - O Bom Soldado Švejk (1921-23)
December 1, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Not bad, CIA!

But I, being a traditionalist and simple-minded (though not an imbecile) and an owner (but not seller--much less, with false pedigrees) of dogs, will always go with this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
book cover: tan with brown lettering JAROSLAV HAŠEK THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK AND HIS FORTUNES IN THE WORLD WAR IN A NEW AND UNABRIDGED TRANSLATION BY CECII PARROTT WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEF LADA SKETCH: a portly amiable-looking Švejk, in uniform, stands at attention before two officers with dog-like faces and moustaches
December 1, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with or influenced you.

Day 18 - The Good Soldier Švejk ~ Jaroslav Hašek

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December 1, 2024 at 12:41 PM