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On Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk
Ian Johnston
"What Hašek is ridiculing here lies close to the heart of any complex modern institution."
Tropos Kynikos: Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk
Peter Steiner
Originally published in 1994 in "an obscure Prague"journal", the authors says.
Four years later it appeared in the International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication
Poetics Today 19:4 (1998), pp.469-98.
With some additional introductory material it became
the first chapter
of Peter Steiner's book The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context
reproduced here by permission of the author and the publisher, Cornell University Press:
"Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence."
Švejk: A Hero For Our Time
Zenny K. Sadlon
"The Czech and Slovak 20th Century in Retrospect: 1918-1938" Conference, March 2-3, 2001:
"The spreading of absurdity is a key element upon which Mike Joyce and I rest our prediction that
Švejk will become a household word even in the United States and other Anglophone countries at last,
just as Catch 22 has."
The Good Soldier Svejk
Macdonald Daly
New Internationalist Classic Review:
"...being the book that teaches us who makes history ... The critic JP Stern has called The Good Soldier Svejk 'the only genuine popular creation of modern European literature; "
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Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk as a Picaresque Novel
Thomas Kovach
Germano-Slavica, Spring 1984, Vol. IV, No. 5, pp. 251-264:
"Many critics have compared Švejk to other 'mythic' figures of Western literature, such as Don Quixote, Faust, or (more appropriately) Sancho Panza."
Looking for the Good Soldier, Švejk: Alternative Modalities of Resistance in the Contemporary Workplace
Peter Fleming, Graham Sewell
Sociology, Volume 36, Issue 4, November 2002, pp 857-873:
"... Švejk never pulled his cons, ruses and stunts at the expense of his 'comrades', his hapless fellow foot soldiers ..."
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