The Good Soldier Svejk

Author: Jaroslav Hasek

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 20 May 1993 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics' series.

Hardback | 800 pages
140 x 210 x 47mm | 864g

An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the ANCIEN REGIME of the Austro-Hungarian empire, THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier whose sheer determination to survive brings into question the mighty social and political institutions he confronts. Set in a Central Europe which has long since vanished, Hasek's novel is nevertheless a timeless portrait of the 'little man' doughtily waging his own war against authority