How does an ordinary man, modest and ragged, become a hero? This marvelous metamorphosis is recounted in The Fates of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, the story of a Czech dipsomaniac, logorheic and rogue, but loyal to his homeland, who enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army as soon as the First World War. Despite being officially declared a "notorious fool", Švejk will become in the eyes of the reader a true virtuoso, capable of moving like a fish in water in the immense bureaucratic tangle of the Army, in which the rest of the characters lose their grip. reason and composure. A scathing, subversive and hilarious parody, which is already a classic of Czech literature and anti-war literature of all time.
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