The Good Soldier Švejk lurks on the far periphery of the literary consciousness of the English-reading public.

<body bgcolor="#FFC1C1" link="#008080" vlink="#008080" alink="#008080" onload="dynAnimation()" style="font-family: Times New Roman"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"> <tr> <td colspan="3" width="603"> <p align="left"><font size="7" face="Times New Roman"><strong>So, why haven't <u>YOU</u></strong></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" width="603"> <p align="left"><font size="7" face="Times New Roman"><strong>         heard about <img src="images/S_s_hackem_v_cernem_36.gif" alt="S s hackem v cernem 36.gif (962 bytes)" width="23" height="45">vejk?</strong></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="181"> <p align="right"><font color="#FF0000" size="7" face="Times New Roman"><blink><span style="text-decoration: blink"><strong>It's not</strong></span></blink></font> </td> <td valign="top" width="147"> <p align="center"><font size="7" face="Times New Roman"><img src="images/AG00039_.gif" alt="Really?" align="left" width="150" height="84"></font> </td> <td valign="top" width="303"> <font color="#0000FF" size="7" face="Times New Roman"><blink><span style="text-decoration: blink"><strong><br> your fault!</strong></span></blink></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3" width="603">   <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="349"> <tr> <td width="349"> <font face="Times New Roman"><strong><big><big>What if you suddenly became aware that, because of some</big></big><br> <a href="#unreadable" style="color: rgb(255,255,0)"><span style="background-color: rgb(128,0,128)"><font color="#FFFF00"><big><big><big>problem with translation</big></big></big></font></span></a> <br> or some other oversight, Mark Twain’s work had been virtually hidden from Europeans for 75 years? Most Americans would consider that a lamentable travesty.</strong></font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="right"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="67%"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" style="padding-left: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"><strong><br> Well, that is what has happened to the Czech people in the case of Jaroslav Ha<img src="images/s_s_hackem_v_cernem_12.gif" alt="s s hackem v cernem 12.gif (832 bytes)" width="5" height="11">ek. He and his work are practically non-existent in the English-reading world, an influential audience of at least 500 million people.</strong></font> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="5.html" target="_top"><img src="images/Crime_against_the_people.gif" alt="Let them read Svejk!" style="border: medium none" width="167" height="47"></a> </font></p> <p align="right"><font face="Times New Roman"><map name="FPMap0"> <area href="5.html" target="_top" shape="polygon" coords="44, 96, 40, 89, 49, 76, 44, 54, 51, 42, 68, 43, 58, 25, 75, 35, 72, 27, 88, 31, 78, 22, 99, 20, 81, 16, 86, 10, 78, 11, 80, 8, 74, 8, 78, 3, 61, 7, 58, 2, 57, 7, 51, 4, 55, 16, 52, 19, 46, 13, 47, 3, 34, 3, 27, 10, 24, 16, 28, 23, 24, 29, 11, 31, 4, 33, 4, 44, 3, 54, 11, 81, 23, 65, 38, 79, 30, 92, 44, 101"></map><img src="images/copr.gif" alt=""We're having a nice summer, aren't we?" asked Bretschneider. "It's all worth shit," replied Palivec, putting his coasters away. "They sure did it to us nicely in Sarajevo," Bretschneider continued, hoping to instigate a political discussion. "What Sarajevo?" asked Palivec. "That wine bar in Nusle? They fight every day there. That's Nusle, you know." "The Sarajevo in Bosnia, mister pubkeeper, where they shot the royal Archduke Ferdinand dead! What do you say to that?" "I don't get myself mixed up in such things," Palivec answered politely, while lighting his pipe. "Everybody can kiss my ass with stuff like that. Getting messed up in stuff like that nowadays can get you hanged. I'm a small businessman. When somebody comes in and orders a beer, then I draw it for him. But some Sarajevo --politics-- some archduke, that is nothing to me. It hold's no promise, except maybe a trip to the Pankrác prison."" style="background-color: rgb(255,193,193); border: medium none" border="0" align="left" usemap="#FPMap0" width="93" height="100"><map name="FPMap1"> <area href="5.html" target="_top" shape="polygon" coords="49, 96, 55, 91, 45, 81, 52, 53, 45, 41, 27, 45, 36, 25, 20, 33, 22, 28, 3, 30, 17, 24, 0, 19, 16, 17, 6, 11, 16, 11, 13, 7, 21, 9, 16, 3, 29, 7, 34, 1, 38, 5, 44, 4, 43, 10, 42, 16, 44, 12, 49, 4, 58, 3, 67, 11, 69, 19, 67, 25, 79, 28, 89, 31, 90, 47, 87, 73, 84, 78, 67, 65, 58, 79, 65, 91"></map><img src="images/copl.gif" alt="Bretschneider quietly stared across the deserted pub. After a while, he said out loud: "At one time, a picture of our Lord Emperor used to hang here. Right over there where that mirror is now." Yeah, you're right," said Palivec, "it used to hang there. And the flies kept shitting on it, so, I put it in the attic. You know that all I would have needed was for some busybody to dare to make some kind of comment. It could have resulted in some unpleasant difficulties. I don't need that kind of trouble."" style="background-color: rgb(255,193,193); border: medium none" border="0" align="right" usemap="#FPMap1" width="93" height="100"></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#0000FF"><b><blink><strong><a href="BookOneChapter1.html" style="color: rgb(0,0,255)"><big><big>3 FREE preview chapters</big></big></a> </strong></blink></b></font><img src="images/AG00108_.gif" alt="Download now!" align="top" width="44" height="23"></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <font size="2"> <p></font><strong><font face="Times New Roman"><a name="modern"></a> <font size="3">Literary critic <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255)">Emanuel Frynta</span> in his unsurpassed analysis of Jaroslav Ha</font><img src="images/s_s_hackem_v_cernem_12.gif" alt="s s hackem v cernem 12.gif (832 bytes)" width="5" height="11"><font size="3">ek and his masterpiece</font><font size="4" color="#0000FF"><br> the Good Soldier Švejk</font><font size="3"> wrote: "The structure of<br> Ha</font><img src="images/s_s_hackem_v_cernem_12.gif" alt="s s hackem v cernem 12.gif (832 bytes)" width="5" height="11"><font size="3">ek's novel ... has much to say in particular concerning the conditions and process of development of dadaism and surrealism from the soil of wartime Europe. ... </font><font size="4" color="#00FFFF"><span style="background-color: rgb(0,128,128)">His place in that cross-roads generation of modern European artists is incontrovertible</span></font><font size="4"> and well-deserved — it is merely for the time being well </font><font size="5" color="#FFFF00"><a href="#unreadable" style="background-color: rgb(128,0,128); color: rgb(255,255,0)"><span style="background-color: rgb(128,0,128)">masked</span></a> </font><font size="5">:</font><font size="3"> on the one hand </font><font size="4" color="#FF0000">by the difficulties of transferring a Czech novel into a foreign language</font></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">, on the other by the fact that the Good Soldier <img src="images/S_s_hackem_v_cerne.gif" alt="S s hackem v cerne.gif (857 bytes)" width="9" height="17">vejk is a humorous novel and its main character usurps most of the attention to himself."</font></strong><font size="3"></p> <p style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); padding: 12px"></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Frynta himself had others translate his own words into English. Had he known the language and it's nature so different from the other Continental languages, he'd probably have written "and it shall be masked by English translations forever."<br> </strong></font></p> <p style="padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-top: 12px">  </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" width="85%" bgcolor="#FFFF00"> <tr> <td> <a name="unreadable"></a> <font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">The two</font><big><big> </big></big><font size="4"><b>English translations</b> published so far were<b> dismal, unreadable, and unfaithful to the original</b>. Therefore, only rightfully, they were not heavily promoted. As a result of both, virtually nobody reads them. Most English language readers don’t know this masterpiece exists.</font></font><b><font face="Helvette" size="2"> <p></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is now a superb English language translation and faithful literary rendition of the </font><strong><big><big><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"><span style="background-color: rgb(0,128,128); color: rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="masterpiece.html" style="background-color: rgb(0,128,128); color: rgb(255,255,255)">masterwork</a> :</span></font></big></big><font face="Times New Roman" size="7"><br> Now the Good Soldier<br> <img src="images/S_s_hackem_v_cernem_36.gif" alt="S s hackem v cernem 36.gif (962 bytes)" width="23" height="45">vejk is unmasked</font></strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">, <strong>and its title character himself steps from behind the English reader's veil of ignorance to convince him of his own flesh and blood reality.</strong></font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <p> </p> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="70%"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#008080"> <font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Over the past few decades Americans have been subjected to some of the same social, political, economic, and moral phenomena that Europeans have endured for ages and which are the backdrop to this icono-clastic and soul probing epic. </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#FFFF00"><b>Now more than ever before, Americans will be able to relate to the story and its main character</b>.</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF" size="4"> And they will enjoy doing it.</font> <p style="background-color: #008080" align="center"><br> <b><a href="http://www.zenny.com/svejk/ruth.ram"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><font size="4" color="#008080"> Ruth Cooper of Chicago did <br>  and wants to tell you about it right here! </font></span></a> </b><br> <br> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left" width="90%"> <p align="center" dynamicanimation="fpAnimflyBottomFP1" style="position: relative !important; 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