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Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence. "Švejking" is the method for surviving "švejkárna", which is a situation or institution of systemic absurdity requiring the employment of "švejking" for one to survive and remain untouched by it.
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Jarmila, Hašek’s wife, said thisof her maligned husband:
"The honesty of Hašek’s work lies in that he would descend for his art all the way to the level of his jokes to come to understand their relation to people and things. He sacrificed himself, a mother, a wife, a child, a friend – he laid everything he had on the altar of truth – and she revealed herself to him such as she is, a laughably crippled wretch, without trinkets and without a veil."
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Most
people who never leave the geographical and social circuit of their own national
culture and its constituent elements cannot even begin to imagine what Jaroslav
Hašek underwent, as a real person, a thinking and feeling being on his anabasis
through Europe and Asia between his joining the army and his return home.
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What they say about Jaroslav Hašek
(on the Internet, that is ...)
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A Bohemian's Tale
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Books and Writers
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Wikipedia
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English broadcast of the Czech Radio
Listen in RealAudio:
 Jaroslav Hasek
by Nick Carey
As heard on the Czech Radio on 11/29/00
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České vysílání Českého rozhlasu (Czech language broadcast of the
Czech Radio)
Před 80 lety zemřel Jaroslav Hašek
(text)
poslech
autor Vilém Faltýnek
06-01-2003
The [Political] Sins of
Jaroslav Hašek
Stanislav Jíra
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Jaroslav Hašek as an Austro-Hungarian soldier in 1915
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Writing for the Čechoslovan in Kiev while
a member of the Czecho-Slovak Legions
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The tall building on the left is the Kiev Hotel Praga (Prague) where
Hašek
lived and worked as an editor of the Čechoslovan magazine.
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To the Branch of the Czechoslovak National Council.
I hereby let it be known that I do not agree with the policy of the
Branch of the Czechoslovak National Council and with the departure of
our corps to France.
Therefore I declare that I am leaving the
Czechoslovak corps until such time that both within the corps and the
National Council activities as a whole a new direction prevails.
I request that this decision of mine be noted.
I will even now continue to work for a revolution in Austria and the
liberation of our nation.
Jaroslav Hašek, in own hand
Read at the meeting
4/18/18
(illegible initials and signature)
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A photograph posted on the site of
Omsk State University
in Russia
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"Political workers", a.k.a. "politruks", i.e.
"political leaders" of the
5th Army of the Soviet Red Army
(Hašek sitting in the front row, third from the right.
Detail image of Hašek below.)
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Hašek as a propagandist of the 5th Army
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Back home again. (1921)
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Back home again. (1921)
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Jaroslav Hašek with his wife Jarmila and son Ríša.
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The cottage Hašek bought in 1921 and moved into in summer 1922,
located across the street from the pub in Lipnice on the Sázava river where he
wrote Švejk books 2, 3 and 4.
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Jaroslav Hašek and his Russian wife Shura in Lipnice.
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The last photograph of Jaroslav Hašek, December 1922
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Commemorative stamp from the USSR
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Czechoslovak commemorative stamp
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Search across SvejkCentral.com and
zenny.com/Svejk. See the results below.
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