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	AllRefer.com - Jaroslav Hasek (Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jaroslav Hasek, Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biographies
		The novel won Hasek international fame and was adapted for stage and film.
		Hasek also wrote many volumes of short stories.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hasek-Ja.html (232 words)

	The Good Soldier Švejk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jaroslav Hašek and in particular this novel have been subjects of innumerable articles, essays, studies, and books.
		Written by a great variety of individuals, ranging from friends and acquaintances, to admirers, detractors, and literary scholars, they started appearing almost immediately after the publication of the unfinished novel and the author's premature death in 1923.
		Jaroslav Hašek was one of the earliest writers of what we have come to know as modern literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Good_Soldier_Svejk (1005 words)

	Jaroslav Hasek \| The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law
		The Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek is remembered today primarily for The Good Soldier Svejk, an acid, hilarious satire on the Austro-Hungarian military which is the spiritual ancestor of Catch 22.
		Hasek and a few of his hard-drinking, iconoclastic friends created an imaginary political party, "The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law", which nominated Hasek for the seat in the Austro-Hungarian parliament from the Vinohrady district of Prague.
		Twenty valid voting papers with Hasek's name were cast into the box, but to them we added another ninety of one sort or another, the so-called split votes, which for some formal reason were not assigned to any candidate.
	www.ralphmag.org /CN/hasek1.html (1030 words)

	The Good Soldier Sevejk - everymans hero
		Dr Radko Pytlik, the foremost expert on Jaroslav Hasek's work in the Czech Republic, published a book in 1982 titled 'Jaroslav Hasek and the Good Soldier Svejk`, in which he went to great lengths to explain the character of Svejk and his role within the narrative.
		Hasek deliberately chose an ambivalent type in accordance with laws of comedy and slapstick.
		Today both Jaroslav Hasek and his good-humoured character Svejk have become synonymous with much of Czech wit, and there are even Svejk-styled pubs throughout the country named after the comic round-faced, beer-loving character.
	svejk.com (1540 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops).
		Hasek is no Remark, and his protagonists are so adept at getting out of the front, that by the (incomplete) end of the book there has still been no actual fighting in it.
		Hasek lived through World War One, fighting for the Austro-Hungarian empire on the Eastern front against the Russians, and this is the backdrop to the novel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141184280 (1593 words)

	Jaroslav Hasek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations.
		Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 - January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his hilarious, world-famous novel The Good Soldier Svejk, a unfinished collection of farsical incidents about a soldier in World War I which has been translated into sixty languages.
		Poverty forced the family, with three children -- another son Bohuslav, three years Jaroslav's younger, and an orphan cousin Maria -- to move often, more than ten times during his infancy.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jaroslav_Hasek (561 words)

	Get a dose of culture, a glimpse at modern history in the making, and laugh your head off. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We consider this both an injustice to Jaroslav Haek and a tragedy for those denied the insight and enjoyment of a hilarious and rollicking modern classic.
		The book’s central character is a quintessential, working-class citizen-soldier, often abused by the fates and the forces of the Austrian empire.
		A host of literary critics acknowledge that Jaroslav Haek was one of the earliest writers of what we have come to know as modern literature.
	www.zenny.com /svejk/SvejkCentralNN.html (1662 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Good Soldier Svejk (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hasek was a modern day Cervantes and this modern day Don Quixote interacts with a gallery of hilarious characters and their stories.
		Hasek died before he completed this book, a deep loss to all literature lovers, whether they are aware of it or not.
		Hasek was known for his excellent memory, which is reflected in SVEJK; for this book is perhaps as close to reality as any historical text can get.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679420363?v=glance (1389 words)

	The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
		During his lifetime Hasek gained notoriety for such escapades as marrying two women at the same time, running for office as a member of a bogus political party, and describing imaginary animals (the werewolf, for example) in a serious zoological magazine he was editing.
		Scholars have argued that Hasek was drunk when writing certain passages, and the novel, to be sure, displays all the artistry of a drunken storyteller shouting to be heard.
		The novel's strength comes from the collision of Hasek's fondness for clever rogues with the pointlessness (especially for the Czechs) of the First World War: given the circumstances, only a fool would be eager to risk his life for His Imperial Majesty.
	www.johnholleman.com /win/goodsol.html (557 words)

	Karin Beck, Columbia University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Power of Language and its Subversion: Jaroslav Hasek’s Brave Soldier Svejk and As the Commander of the City of Bugulma
		Jaroslav Hasek’s novel The Brave Soldier Svejk is often seen mainly as a satirical description of life in the Austrian army during World War I and as a parody of military life in general.
		Already in his earlier work As the Commander of the City of Bugulma, Hasek showed his understanding of language as a tool of power.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/beck.htm (408 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Good Soldier Svejk : and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jaroslav Hasek is the greatest author of all time.
		I'm certain, mine will be the best of all the many endings but I must, in advance, apologize to the great literary genius Jaroslav Hasek for the stunt.
		Nothing of value makes it into the translation, which, by the way, is a purposeful and deliberate attempt to keep Jaroslav Hasek from rightfully dominating the world literary stage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140182748?v=glance (2290 words)

	Jaroslav Hasek - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Jaroslav Hasek - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Jaroslav Hašek was born in Bohemia on 24 April 1883, the son of a teacher of mathematics.
		Forced by the dictates of necessity to earn some sort of a living he became a bank clerk, but soon abandoned it in favour of an eccentric and wandering life.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000014328,00.html (209 words)

	Alibris: Jaroslav Hasek
		The idiotic soldier Svejk serves as a kind of Czech Everyman: appearing both servile and uncomprehending to outsiders, he in fact has sharper view of the world than anyone around him.
		Jaroslav Hasek was a humorist and satirist of rare order long before he wrote his celebrated novel, The Good Soldier Schweik.
		Since Hasek's comic masterpiece was first produced in 1920s Prague, there have been countless attempts to stage this sprawling story of the seeming idiot, Svejk, who survives the horrors of the First World War through use of his very idiocy.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Jaroslav_Hasek (383 words)

	Alibris: Hasek
		by Hasek, Jarslav, and Hasek, Jaroslav, and Parrott, Cecil, Sir (Introduction by)
		by Hasek, Jaroslav, and Menhennet, Alan (Introduction by)
		by Teevan, Colin (Adapted by), and Hasek, Jaroslav
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hasek (391 words)

	Artist Jana Sterbak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both of these works demonstrate Sterbak's use of humor and irony in dealing with serious subjects, a method which related to her Czech heritage and particularly the writings of Jaroslav Hasek.
		According to the artist, "The most important thing to be learned [from Hasek] is that serious subjects need not be treated in a humorless way...
		They are informed by an appreciation of the absurd and fl humor, and grounded in her memories of Prague, in medieval myths, folk tales, and the writing of Franz Kafka, Karel Capek and Hasek.
	brown.edu /Administration/George_Street_Journal/v22/v22n1/sterbak.html (564 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Jaroslav Hasek: A Study of Svejk and the Short Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amazon.ca: Books: Jaroslav Hasek: A Study of Svejk and the Short Stories
		Jaroslav Hasek: A Study of Svejk and the Short Stories
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521243521 (114 words)

	The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War - Jaroslav Hasek - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War - Jaroslav Hasek - Penguin Group (USA)
		Enmeshed in red tape, chivvied by police, doctors, clergy and officers, and ever-obliging, the good soldier (once discharged as an idiot) ploughs his irresistible furrow towards the crowning moment when he is captured by his own troops.
		‘Hasek was a humorist of the highest calibre.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140182748,00.html (151 words)

	Svejk Central [shvake] vejk Central: All about Svejk and his creator Jaroslav Hasek. Svejk, svejk, svejk!
		Svejk Central [shvake] vejk Central: All about Svejk and his creator Jaroslav Hasek.
		Peter Steiner, 'Tropos Kynikos: "Jaroslav Haek's The Good Soldier vejk"', Poetics Today 19:4 (1998), pp.469-98.
		Untold hundreds of thousands and perhaps even millions of Americans experience and operate in "vejkárna".
	my.core.com /~zenny (117 words)

	Jaroslav Hasek - the author of the Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jaroslav Hasek - the author of the Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War
		Tropos Kynikos: Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk
		(As it turns out, it was published as The Cynic Hero : Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk
	www.svejkcentral.com /Analyses.html (393 words)

	Fans of 'The Good Soldier Svejk' salute genius of author Jaroslav Hasek - 06-01-2003 - Radio Prague
		Fans of 'The Good Soldier Svejk' salute genius of author Jaroslav Hasek - 06-01-2003 - Radio Prague
		A daily in-depth look at current events in the Czech Republic.
		Pervasive though he may be, Svejk stands side by side but does not dominate the life of his author, who himself led a colourful if
	www.radio.cz /en/article/36120 (820 words)

	Jaroslav Hasek Message Board
		Shows how you can expose your superiors, your government, the military or any other oppressive system by the use of humour.
		What sort of book should Jaroslav Hasek write/have written next?
		What was your favorite scene in Jaroslav Hasek's books?
	www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=27060 (78 words)

	JAROSLAV HASEK :: Thematic Web Directory :: www.education.find-ez.com :: 2005-10-19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JAROSLAV HASEK :: Thematic Web Directory :: www.education.find-ez.com :: 2005-10-19
		Buy used, new, rare and out-of-print books by Hasek Jaroslav.
		JoltSearch is an excellent resource for quality sites on Jaroslav Hasek and much more!
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