Also published as: The Good Soldier Schweik

Author: Jaroslav Hasek Year: 1921 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Humor, Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140449914 9780140182743 0140449914 0140182748

The Good Soldier Schweik is the story beginning in Prague with news of the assassination in Sarajevo that precipitates World War I. Schweik displays such enthusiasm about faithfully serving the Austrian Emperor in battle that no one can decide whether he is merely an imbecile or is craftily undermining the war effort. However, he is arrested by a member of the secret police after making some politically sensitive remarks, and is sent to prison. After being certified insane he is finally transferred to a madhouse, before being ejected. This is the Czech classic of anti-war satirical humor. A must-read. Similar books: The Joke by Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Slowness by Milan Kundera Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera The Republic of Whores by Josef Skvorecky Ignorance by Milan Kundera Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal Love and Garbage by Ivan Klima Immortality by Milan Kundera Identity by Milan Kundera The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck