The Good Soldier Svejk av Jaroslav Hasek

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<p>The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller''s <i>Catch-22</i>, Jaroslav Ha¿ek''s black satire <i>The Good Soldier ¿vejk</i> is translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott in Penguin Classics.<br><br>Good-natured and garrulous, ¿vejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army''s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards, getting drunk and becoming a general nuisance, the resourceful ¿vejk uses all his natural cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the doctors, police, clergy and officers who chivvy him towards battle. The story of a ''little man'' caught in a vast bureaucratic machine, <i>The Good Soldier ¿vejk</i> combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.<br><br>Cecil Parrott''s vibrant, unabridged and unbowdlerized translation is accompanied by an intro