Jaroslav Hašek : a study of Švejk and the short stories
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Jaroslav Hašek : a study of Švejk and the short stories
(Major European authors)
Cambridge University Press, 1982
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 214-215
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This 1982 book was the first major critical study of Jaroslav Hasek and his most important literary creation, The Good Soldier Svejk. For many people Hasek's book is simply extremely funny. Cecil Parrott begins from the point of view that a closer examination of the conditions under which the book was written reveal it to be a much deeper work than it appears on the surface: a tragic as well as a comic masterpiece. A leading authority on Hasek, Parrott wrote the definitive biography, The Bad Bohemian, and translated the unexpurgated version of Svejk and many of Hasek's short stories. This book is lucidly written and aimed at the non-specialist reader who requires guidance in coming to terms with this strange book. All quotations are translated, and the book also includes a number of illustrations including the only sketch of Svejk that Hasek approved.
Table of Contents
- 1. The individual and the giant power
- 2. The oppressor's shame
- 3. Hasek as a journalist and short story writer
- 4. The origins. Three Svejks or one?
- 5. The characters in the book - Svejk himself
- 6. The other characters: the Army
- 7. Structure and form
- 8. The controversy
- 9. Were the critics right?
- Notes
- Appendices 1-3
- Bibliography
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"