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... to the end of the line
Franz Biberkopf in Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The entire (almost) cast of the Asterix books
Any one of the many boozers in William Trevor's short stories, although 'Swa ... The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War, by Jaroslav Hasek, in a new and unabridged translation by Cecil Parrott (read 18 Oct 2009)
... of books that affected my life. Not in any order:
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
Light in August
Good Soldier Svejk
Pride and Prejudice
Passage to India
Iliad, Odyssey
Huckleberry Finn
Good Soldier
Lord Jim
Franny and Zooey
Grendel
Song of ... I think FS members would respond well to an edition of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk. It would be an interesting problem for the Society whether to commission new illustrations or go with the famous Josef Lada ones that have become inseparable from the book in many people's minds. For ... ... by Vita Sackville-West
*2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West
4. Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
5. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
6. White Noise by Don Delillo
7. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
8. The Night ... Oh, forget about catching up and tell us what you're up to now. I'm wandering through The Good Soldier Svejk on your recommendation and enjoying it -- best in small chunks, but the man does get around... ... to a Czech readership but which might be lost on an English reader. An example might be jokes about Nusle in Hašek's Svejk. Going to Prague next week. I have borrowed Svejk, Prague Tales, The Golem and The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson at the library, and will be bringing at least two.
I also have Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess, about the assassination of Heydrich in Prague in 1942, which is ... ... week. I began Those Who Save Us and Tethered (which was excellent and very weird) on Sunday and since then have begun The Good Soldier Svejk, which is a Czech classic, and The Lace Reader. ... joined LT, you remarked on my tiny collection of books by Czech authors and then suggested a few. I'm currently reading The Good Soldier Svejk and enjoying it -- what a great comic novel. Incidentally, my Polish sister-in-law tells me that it's standard reading for Poles as well. So thank ... Which novels deserve the tag 'Bohemian'? As a start I'd suggest The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek. Set in Bohemia and written by a true bohemian. ... Empire 1850 to 1918 and questions of war and honor are central in it. And I am always recommending Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk, another key WWI novel. Both of them would make interesting comparisons with your read. ... se ucil v Praze pred tremi lety a moje psani je hrozne! Chtel bych si lepsit moji cestinu a cist vic v cestine, zejmena Svejka, co jsem jedno zacal pomalu cist. Uz skoro nikdy nemluvim cesky tak samozrejme brzo bych uplne zapomel. To by bylo skoda protoze se ucit jazyk me strasne bavi a ... #127 Thanks, polutropos, I have The Good Soldier Svejk, but haven't had a chance to read it yet -- will move it up on the list. ... works of genius dealing with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the beginning of World War I, I cannot recommend highly enough The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek. Joseph Heller said he could not have written Catch-22 if it were not for Svejk.
A key book in the history of central Europe. ... prototype, Diary of a Provincial Lady.
Others worth considering are Diary of a Nobody, The Towers of Trebizond, The Good Soldier Svejk, Decline and Fall and something by Saki.
... to get away from him." "'Where am I?' / 'You have the honor to be in a brothel, sir. God moves in a mysterious way.'" The Good Soldier Svejk
"Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers." Buck Mulligan speaking to Stephen in Ulysses
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Just time to post about my most recent book before I go away tomorrow...
BOOK 4: The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
An unfinished account of the adventures of a Czech soldier, Svejk, serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First Worl ... I'm not sure The Good Soldier Svejk is about WWI at all, more about Svejk's heroic - and largely successful efforts - to avoid the bloody thing. It's basically about the stupidity of bureaucracy, I think, even if the bureaucracy here is on a wartime footing.
Great book, of course, but for a ... ... since it makes reading in a foreign language much more appealing if the books are in my favorite genre! I also have The Good Soldier Svejk and am looking forward to that one as it looks fun.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a surprisingly easy read, even as it illuminates things in a ... For WWI, the best book by far is The Good Soldier Svejk (Hasek).
This thread is generally about fiction, but the best book I've read on Napolean's invasion of Russia (other than War and Peace (Tolstoy)) is de Segur's History of the Expedition to Russia. ... Melville, 1965
95. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1960's
96. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1970's
97. The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek, 1960's
98. The Castle, Franz Kafka, 1960's
99. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1960's
100. To The Light House, Virgin ... ... Life is too short for the utterly boring book. Keane's book was not my favorite of her works. I read a few pages of The Good Soldier Svejk last night. It is hysterically funny and, in light of events over the last decade or so, prescient. So I think I will continue with this one ... ... her company. She is a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work, no angel, and boring. I spent a few minutes last night with The Good Soldier Svejk, so perhaps I will head to the Austria-Hungarian empire for a while. However Auto-da-Fe just arrived, and I do have a penchant for madmen so ... ... green spines, waiting for me to read them. This year I will.
1. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
2. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
3. Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset
4. To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
5. The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
... ... I would like to read more of and I would like to find The Engineer of Human Souls, I Served the King of England and The Good Soldier Svejk next year.
As for non-fiction, I have a couple of WWII studies - Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and The Most Dangerous Enemy - lined up as ... ... boat ride down the Danube, cavalry charge with the Cossacks....
Still in WWI, I haven't seen any of the film versions of The Good Soldier Svejk, a book well worth reading. There doesn't seem to be a recent (or English-speaking) film version. ... amusing and it reads quite fast, but the story is very slow. It does remind me of things I liked in Tristram Shandy and The Good Soldier Svejk. ... political satire, bureaucrats, the Middle East, the war in Iraq, and a sheikh who is really a mystic. Clever light read.
Good Soldier Schweik probably still the most important novel written in Czech even though it was first published in 1923. A key anti-war novel, influencing both Remarque ... Leaving aside memoirs, collections of letters, etc.
The Good Soldier Schweik, Jaroslav Hasek
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
Soldier's Pay, Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
Johnny Get Your Gun, Dalton Trumbo
Tough to choose, but I'll go with The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek from Sandydog1's library.
... also a great call, although the humor there is so mixed with sadness and horror. While we're on war satires, can't forget Good Soldier Schweik.
And I can't leave out Mr. Roth: Portnoy's Complaint, Sabbath's Theater and The Great American Novel all go on my "funniest books" list. Yes to Beloved. How about The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek? ... Well, and Kundera.
Can anyone tell me more about Vancura? Skvorecky and Jiri Weil, and Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk have been on my list to look out for for a while. Having delved into your library, is it:
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War
And if it is, is it good? Because I loved Catch 22.... The Financier,Theodore Dreiser
The Catsitters, James Wolcott
The Good Soldier Schweik, Jaroslav Hasek
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Shoot the Piano Player, David Goodis ... I began to think of all of the classics which would satsify one of the countries, anything by Dostoevsky, Petersburg, The Good Soldier Svejk, The Betrothed, The Leopard, and on and on and on. All of these books have been battling for a place on my TBR stacks.
Next, I thought of a ... ... "Markens grøde")
Kristin Lavransdatter
Der Zauberberg
Der Prozess
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (long ago)
Den tapre soldaten Svejk
Alberte og Jakob
Steppeulven (long ago)
... them.
Odyssey
Iliad
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Complete Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
Old Testament
The Good Soldier Svejk (Hasek)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
The Li ... No Time For Sergeants still holds up surprisingly well--an American version of Good Soldier Švejk, and the prototype for MASH and paler imitations. ... of literature in the Soviet Union and other Communist European countries that everyone read and knew of as children: The Good Soldier Svejk, for example. Now, it's one of the most hilarious books I've read - nothing heavy, difficult or moralizing about it - but I read it at 22, when it ... ... myth as well.
Recent books I've read by Czech authors include I Served the King of England, mentioned above, and The Good Solder Schweik, a classic of course. The opening section of The good soldier Svejk is set in Prague during World War I. Probably not very useful as a tourist guide (unless you are interested in bars, police stations or dog-stealing), but it does give an interesting and very funny insight into the Czech perspective on the Austro-Hunga ... ... than you know A really good book.
To #130 Lasperschlager, I'm going to the bigger town tomorrow & I'll try to get 5 fortunes either at the library or used book store.
Now I am reading a non-fiction Mid-century journey by William L. Shirer. it was published in 1952 If you need something that's long as well as funny, what about The good soldier Svejk? That comes to about 750 pages in Penguin... ... Penguin Classics that have silver covers (at least they do in the UK). This has introduced me to books like ragtime and The Good Soldier Svejk. My partner always looks for Canongate works as he enjoys slightly weird American stuff. If I'm in a secondhand bookshop I always seek out the Virago ... #13 - The Good Soldier Schweik is a great book, but it's a World War I novel, not World War II.
I recently read Jeder stirbt für sich allein (the anchor thing isn't working for it even though users have it in their libraries) by Hans Fallada. It takes place in Berlin during the Nazi ... The touchstones didn't get it, maybe this spelling will help:
the Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek and Le Chartreuse de Parme by Stendahl ... I have most enjoyed tend to be the those that describe war as being chaotic (The White Guard, War and Peace) or absurd (The Good Soldier Svejk, Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-22, The Cowards). I find things that deal with the full horror of war hard to connect with, I suppose because I ... ... buy. One month leaves little time for tangents, and even misses important things (no full works by Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk is too long - Ivan Klima, Jiri Weil, etc). But it's perfect for introductions.
Apologies if my answer's run amok. :) ... are welcome), Vaclav Havel, Jaroslav Seifert, and Hrabal's I Served the King of England. If I had time for The Good Soldier Svejk, I'd love it. But I'd like to spend next month in Poland. ... Against America by Philip Roth
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek Eromsted has some great suggestions in there - Total War is a great book, and Studs Terkel's The Good War might well appeal to someone who isn't as fond of traditional histories (and it's a great book).
One question that might help with recommendations: what kind of books do they like?
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