Name: The Red Commissar. Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk and Other Stories
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Author: Jaroslav Hasek;Professor Sir Cecil Parrott
ISBN: 9780571260492

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The Red Commissar. Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk and Other Stories

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Author

Jaroslav Hasek;Professor Sir Cecil Parrott

Year

2010

Pages

298

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13.70 x 21.70 x 2.30 cm

ISBN13

9780571260492

The Red Commissar. Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk and Other Stories

Jaroslav Hasek;Professor Sir Cecil Parrott (Author) · Faber & Faber · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Red Commissar. Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk and Other Stories"

There is a selection from his Bugulma stories (Hasek as Bolshevik and Red Commissar), some early Svejk stories, reminiscences of Hasek's apprenticeship days, and the hilariously funny speeches made by Hasek when promoting his political 'Party of Moderate Progress within the bounds of the Law'.

Jaroslav Hasek is best known for his satirical masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk. That has been described as ''Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.'' Although his life was short and chaotic, Hasek did however write more as this volume tellingly reveals. In his preface, Cecil Parrott, translator and biographer of Hasek, crisply defines its purpose.. ''All the world has heard of Svejk, but few are familiar with the countless other characters Hasek created in his stories and sketches, which together with his feuilletons and articles are though to number some twelve hundred. The best of these deserve to be made available to the Western public and are included in this volume.'' The range is wide. There is a selection from his Bugulma stories (Hasek as Bolshevik and Red Commissar), some early Svejk stories, reminiscences of Hasek''s apprenticeship days, and the hilariously funny speeches made by Hasek when promoting his political ''Party of Moderate Progress within the bounds of the Law''.