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Discover ''perhaps the funniest novel ever written''(The Guardian ), now lovingly reissued from Harper Perennial Modern Classics
"The classic comic novel of the First World War." — The New Yorker - "A literary masterpiece." — New York Review of Books - "One of the greatest works of 20th century literature." — Boston Globe
Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk 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'' (New Republic), 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 Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.
