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The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War: The Centennial Edition - Book One
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ISBN13: 9798218487089
Publisher: Keenan, Sadlon & Lord, Inc.
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Keenan, Sadlon & Lord, Inc.
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This 2024 volume represents an earlier publication of Book One; readers and libraries seeking the complete Centennial Edition with expanded apparatus and endnotes should consult the 2026 edition.---The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War is a landmark work of twentieth-century European fiction and one of the defining novels of the First World War.
Set in the opening months of the conflict, Book One follows Josef Svejk, a Prague dog dealer conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army, as he moves through a world of military offices, police stations, hospitals, churches, and barracks. Rather than focusing on combat, the novel unfolds in the administrative and civilian hinterland of war, where orders circulate endlessly, procedures multiply, and authority is exercised through language as much as through force.Jaroslav Hasek's narrative advances episodically, through encounters with officers, clerks, priests, doctors, informers, and fellow soldiers. In these scenes, ordinary routines-medical examinations, interrogations, religious instruction, and transport arrangements-become sites of confusion and contradiction. Svejk navigates this environment with a distinctive literalness and verbal ingenuity that exposes the self-defeating logic of the systems surrounding him.This Centennial Edition presents a new English translation that preserves the structure, register, and tonal shifts of Hasek's original Czech. Book One establishes the social, bureaucratic, and linguistic landscape through which the subsequent volumes will move.First published in the early 1920s, The Good Soldier Svejk remains a foundational work of literary satire, offering a detailed portrait of institutional life under the pressures of mobilization and authority. A century after its appearance, it continues to challenge readers with its formal originality, precision of observation, and enduring relevance.
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