![]() ![]() ![]() Horovitch’s multi-voiced, multi-accented reading of the hotchpotch of characters is brilliant: dotty major-generals, hard-drinking priests, lecherous officers and, of course, the good soldier himself, beginning every exchange with ‘Beg to report, sir. ![]() Hašek, born in Bohemia in 1883, based the irrepressible Švejk’s career in the first world war on his own rackety life. Joseph Heller based his hero Yossarian on Švejk. It’s anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-religion and – praise indeed – even funnier than Catch-22. Titles by Jaroslav Hašek Titles by Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk (abridged) ReviewsĮvery harassed negotiator, every beleaguered political wife and anyone given to ever-increasing moments of melancholy at the way things are should keep a copy of Hašek’s classic ‘don’t let the bastards get you down’ novel to hand. ![]()
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