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Lädt ... The Good Soldier Schweik (Original 1923; 1930. Auflage)von Jaroslav Hasek
Werk-InformationenDie Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk von Jaroslav Hašek (1923)
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First, will say there are a couple of misogynist bits and one particularly bad racist page right near the start of volume 2 chapter 3 that can easily be skipped Overall there are lots of laugh out moments. The rambling anecdotes of Svejk are inane and "utter tripe" as Lieutenant Lukas describes them but Hasek (and the translator) writes the stories fluently so that even when there's not really a joke they're a pleasure to read. I think in general the only wider criticism I have against it there's too much filler where nothing is happening - it's still fine to read, just could easily have been 5 star with a bit of trimming. The humour is great mostly and the regular juxtaposition of a light-hearted story with a deadly conclusion is always striking. The general illustration of the absurdity and futility of war and militaries in general is great and shown through many funny vignettes. Not quite as satisfying on a reread, but still one of the great 20th Century picaresques and a seminal war satire, passing the baton directly from Simplicissimus to the likes of Heller and Eastlake. The characters are indelible: the terminally uptight Lt Dub, the apelike, arm-swinging glutton Baloun, the long-suffering but essentially noble Lt Lukáš, and of course Švejk himself with his inexhaustible fund of pointless anecdotes and reductio ad absurdums, a kind of super-moronic Sancho Panza (to Lukáš' Quixote?) whose response to the idiocy of endless war is to meet it on its own idiotic, interminable terms. Hašek's disgust for the role of the Church in war is extremely palpable. Here he is describing some prayer-cards, penned by the Archbishop of Budapest and distributed to the men by a couple of well-meaning old ladies: According to the venerable archbishop the merciful Lord ought to cut the Russians, British, Serbs, French and Japanese into mincemeat, and make a paprika goulash out of them. The merciful Lord ought to bathe in the blood of the enemies and murder them all, as the ruthless Herod had done with the Innocents. And although the plot, such as it is, never makes it to any actual combat (I wonder if it would have done had the author lived to complete it?), the horror of the front is never far away. Here's an anonymous character in a discussion on the prevalence of shit on the battlefield: 'And a dead man, who lay on top of the cover with his legs hanging down and half of whose head had been torn off by shrapnel, just as though he'd been cut in half, he too in the last moment shitted so much that it ran from his trousers over his boots into the trenches mixed with blood. And half his skull together with his brains lay right underneath. A chap doesn't even notice how it happens to him.' Ultimately though, Švejk is a pre-postmodern work, the theatre of war meeting the theatre of the absurd. Exchanges like this, very near the end of the book, capture the spirit of it, I think: Vaněk asked with interest: And at its heart, amid all the inanity, the tedium, the degradations, if you squint very hard, there's a kernel of something decent: Lieutenant Lukáš walked along the track thinking: 'I ought to have given him a few on the jaw, but instead I've been gossiping with him as though he were a friend.' keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Durch amtsärztliches Attest als blöde ausgewiesen, wird Schwejk im Ersten Weltkrieg dem Oberleutnant Lukasch als Bursche zugeteilt. Sein Pflichtbewusstsein und sein Befehlsgehorsam übertreffen alle Erwartungen. Schwejk erfüllt seine Aufträge über Gebühr und führt damit ihre Sinnhaftigkeit auf eine unwiderlegbare Weise ad absurdum. »Es ist der kleine Mann, der in das riesige Getriebe des Weltkriegs kommt, wie man eben da so hineinrutscht, schuldlos, ahnungslos, unverhofft, ohne eigenes Zutun. Da steht er nun, und die andern schießen. Und nun tritt dieses Stückchen Malheur den großen Mächten der Erde gegenüber und sagt augenzwinkernd leise, schlecht rasiert die Wahrheit.« Kurt Tucholsky, Herr Schwejk Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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