IT IS WITH pride that Josef Svejk declares to his superior officer: “I dutifully report, Colonel Sir, that I am an idiot.” He has already been kicked out of the Austro-Hungarian army once for being an ...

From February 1 to 18, Theater for the New City (TNC) will present Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) in the world's first puppet theater adaptation of "The Good Soldier Švejk and His ...

“Czech can boast a wide range of words of abuse in all shades of intensity,” writes translator Sir Cecil Parrott in his introduction to Jaroslav Hasek’s unfinished comic epic The Good Soldier Svejk.

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