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'Listen, Švejk, are you really God's prize oaf?' 'Humbly report, sir,' Švejk answered solemnly. 'I am!' Drunkard, malingerer, oaf and possible genius - the story of Czech soldier Svejk and his misadventures in the First World War is one of the most hilarious and subversive satires on war ever written.

An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the ancien régime of the Austro-Hungarian empire, The Good Soldier Švejk 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, Hašek’s novel is nevertheless a timeless portrait of the ‘little man’ doughtily waging his own war against authority.