Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War

<p><strong>Discover perhaps the funniest novel ever written (</strong><strong><em>The Guardian</em></strong><strong> </strong><strong>) now beautifully reissued</strong></p><p><strong>The classic comic novel of the First World War. --<em>The </em><em>New Yorker</em> - A literary masterpiece. --<em>New York Review of Books</em> - </strong><strong>One of the greatest works of 20th century literature. --<em>Boston Globe</em> </strong></p><p>Jaroslav Hasek's <em>The Good Soldier Svejk</em> follows the adventures of Josef Svejk a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914 Svejk one of the great characters of 20th century literature (<em>New Republic</em>) embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses is captured by his own men and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines always with a bizarre--and often hilarious--anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like <em>Catch-22</em> by a generation <em>The Good Soldier Svejk</em> was the first great antiwar satire and still one of the finest ever written.</p>