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Jaroslav Hasek Behind the Lines (Hardback) Modern Czech Classics (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Behind the Lines : Bugulma and Other Stories
- Publication Name
- Behind the Lines
- Title
- Behind the Lines
- Subtitle
- Bugulma and Other Stories
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 8024620138
- EAN
- 9788024620138
- ISBN
- 9788024620138
- Publisher
- Karolinum Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 16/11/2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CZ
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 0.5in
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Series
- Modern Czech Classics
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Historical, Humorous / General
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik , a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI soldier. Hasek--in spite of a life of buffoonery and debauchery--was remarkably prolific. He wrote hundreds of short stories that all display both his extraordinary gift for satire and his profound distrust of authority. Behind the Lines presents a series of nine short stories first published in the Prague Tribune and considered to be some of Hasek's best. Based on his experiences as a Red Commissar in the Russian Civil War and his return to Czechoslovakia, Behind the Lines focuses on the Russian town of Bugulma, taking aim, with mordant wit, at the absurdities of a revolution. Providing important background and insight into The Good Soldier Schweik , this collection by a writer some call the Bolshevik Mark Twain is nevertheless much more than a tool for understanding his better-known novel; it is a significant work in its own right. A hidden gem remarkable for its modern, ribald sense of humor, Behind the Lines is an enjoyable, fast-paced anthology of great literary and historical value.
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Publisher
Karolinum Press
ISBN-10
8024620138
ISBN-13
9788024620138
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112612653
Product Key Features
Book Title
Behind the Lines : Bugulma and Other Stories
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Historical, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.7in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg5038.H28
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Behind the Lines is a special book. . . . Hasek tackles the absurdity of the Soviet approach to Marxism, making fun of how quickly the Bolshevik revolution was corrupted by ignorant men thirsty for power and willing to commit unnecessary violence. . . . In Behind the Lines , it's all a fraud, lies and betrayal, with war presented as a charade in which soldiers act out their role merely because they have no other way of earning a living, while civilian lives and precious resources are wasted like water. Although he was writing about an absurd, militarized society in the early twentieth century, Hasek pretty much nails contemporary society right on the head., Behind the Lines is a special book. . . . Hasek tackles the absurdity of the Soviet approach to Marxism, making fun of how quickly the Bolshevik revolution was corrupted by ignorant men thirsty for power and willing to commit unnecessary violence. . . . In Behind the Lines , it's all a fraud, lies and betrayal, with war presented as a charade in which soldiers act out their role merely because they have no other way of earning a living, while civilian lives and precious resources are wasted like water. Although he was writing about an absurd, militarized society in the early twentieth century, Hasek pretty much nails contemporary society right on the head., Prague's ribald raconteur of tavern tales, Hasek, the author not just of Svejk but of the equally pugnacious Behind the Lines.
Table of Content
Commanding Officer, Town of Bugulma Second-in-Command to the Commanding Officer, Town of Bugulma The Via Dolorosa A Strategic Hitch Bugulma's Glory Days New Dangers Potemkin's Villages There is Hitch with the Prisoners Before the Revolutionary Tribunal of the Eastern Front The Supreme Truth which is Chên-shih Cross Purposes Shake the Dust from your Shoes How I Came to Meet the Author of my Obituary Afterword Translator's Note and Acknowledgement Editor's Note
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
891.8634
Series
Modern Czech Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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