Jaroslav Hasek has written 1 shows including Svejk (Source Material).

Jaroslav Hašek, known for his colourful and often chaotic life, is now set to be the centrepiece of a distinctive biographical film by director and screenwriter David Laňka. His intention is to ...

During the First World War, unenthusiastic enlistees would fake disability to avoid dying in a muddy trench. That's how the "war hero" of Jaroslav Hašek's classic novel The Good Soldier Švejk winds up ...

Through one of the disquieting coincidences which threaten to reduce criticism to an exact science, 1883 was the natal year of a pair of Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic ...

`Catch-22,” Joseph Heller’s darkly comic World War II novel about the insanity of war and the absurdity of military bureaucracy, appears on everyone’s list of classic, must-read fiction. Critics have ...

Satirical anti-war novel in which the absurdity and hypocrisy of the military, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the church are repeatedly revealed… ...

The journal known since 1968 as Modern Austrian Literature first appeared in 1961 under the title Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association. Since then, MAL has established ...

Each of the 32 brief satirical tales in this collection (24 of which are translated into English for the first time here) has an ending that in one way or another comments on the twisted logic of ...