Last year I read Fučik’s memoir, Notes from the Gallows, which he wrote secretly while in the captivity of the Gestapo, and I found his final lines inspirational and quite relevant to our own times

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

Got a cool new (old) short story collection containing what appear to be some unfamiliar tales

Jaroslav Hašek left this world 102 years ago this day, leaving Švejk—his masterpiece—unfinished

Whether you love Jaroslav Hašek’s satirical anti-war novel, The Good Soldier Švejk, or have only heard of it and would like to sample Hašek’s work in shorter form, our newly released collection of Hašek’s previously untranslated short stories might be for you:

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