The good soldier svejk and his fortunes in the world war: translated by cecil parrott. with original illustrations by josef lada. - jaroslav hasek

Discover perhaps the funniest novel ever written ( The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued 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 Haseks 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 Empires 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.