{"product_id":"good-soldier-svejk-and-his-fortunes-in-the-world-w-paperback","title":"Good Soldier Svejk And His Fortunes In The World W (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover \"perhaps the funniest novel ever written\"(The Guardian ), now lovingly reissued from Harper Perennial Modern Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The classic comic novel of the First World War.” — The New Yorker • “A literary masterpiece.” — New York Review of Books • “One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.” — Boston Globe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, \"one of the great characters of 20th century literature\" (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre—and often hilarious—anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hasek, Jaroslav","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52638335041810,"sku":"9780062835444","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/9558543482210.jpg?v=1787604483","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/good-soldier-svejk-and-his-fortunes-in-the-world-w-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}