The Good Soldier Svejk And His Fortunes In The World War

Good-natured and garrulous, vejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards, getting drunk and becoming a general nuisance, the resourceful vejk uses all his natural cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the doctors, police, clergy and officers who chivvy him towards battle. The story of a 'little man' caught in a vast bureaucratic machine, The Good Soldier vejk combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war'--P. [4] of cover.

Softcover. English. Penguin. 2000. ISBN: 9780141184289. 784 pp. Fair/good. Book No: 57582