Jaroslav Hašek
Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923) · Czechia · Writers · Died at 39
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Something wrong?He wrote the most translated novel in Czech literature - an unfinished satire about a soldier bumbling through World War I that skewers every authority figure in sight. The book outlasted the empire it mocked.
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Gorkow Palace, Jaroslav Hasek (Czech writer, journalist) commemorative plaque (2004 design. by Antoni Kałużny), 24 Kanonicza street (4 Podzamcze street), Old Town, Krakow, Poland
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, Great times call for great men. There are unknown heroes who are modest, with none of the historical glamour of a Napoleon.
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Jaroslav Hašek was born 30 April 1883 in what would become Czechoslovakia, and moved through life as a journalist, humorist, and committed bohemian. He started as an anarchist, later turned communist, and served as a commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. Out of that chaos came The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, a novel he never finished before his death on 3 January 1923. The book - a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures through the eyes of a World War I soldier - has since been translated into about 60 languages.
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