Just finished a great one! Excellent and often laugh-out-loud satire of the follies of war. Written by Czech Jaroslav Hasek in the aftermath of WWI. He mocks the Monarchy, bureaucracy, military, church and the throngs of their ridiculous adherents. Hasek was a Twain of Eastern Europe as satirist and humorist, with a very interesting biography through his phases as vagabond, political dissident, anarchist, conscripted soldier, Russian prisoner of war, communist, socialist and apparently back to anarchist. He gave them all hell and made political enemies in every circle as a result of his perpetual pranks and uncomfortable-for-most observations. God love him. Wish I’d known the man.
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