• The Good Soldier Švejk (pronounced [ˈʃvɛjk]) is an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about...
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  • The Good Soldier Švejk (Czech: Dobrý voják Švejk; the Germanised spelling Schweik is also used in English and other languages) is a common abbreviation...
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  • The Good Soldier Schweik (Czech: Dobrý voják Švejk) is a 1956 Czechoslovak anti-war comedy film written and directed by Karel Steklý. It was based on the...
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    Jaroslav Hašek (category People from the Kingdom of Bohemia)
    commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, an...
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    I novel The Good Soldier Švejk,. He’s an author of over 15000 illustrations (both colour and black and white) and more than 600 paintings. The main themes...
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  • "valet"). The main character Švejk of the antimilitarist, satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek is the most famous...
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  • The modern form of the sign, with its modern meaning, has been in use since the 13th century.: 226  In Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, the §...
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  • The Good Soldier Schwejk is a 2018 anti-war satirical film directed by Christine Edzard. It is based on the dark comedy novel The Good Soldier Švejk by...
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    of the most popular Czech actors. Many of his movies such as The Good Soldier Švejk, The Cremator or Capricious Summer are considered classics of the Czech...
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  • Good Soldier Schweik goes to Heaven), based on the famous satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk by the Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek. Themroc (directed...
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  • Sam Kelly (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    November 2008, he starred in the title role of Christopher Reason's radio dramatisation of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, broadcast on BBC Radio...
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  • The Good Soldier Schweik (Czech: Dobrý voják Svejk) is a 1955 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka based on the novel The Good Soldier Švejk...
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    chanted the slogan. Jaroslav Hašek made derisive references on the phrase several times in his novel The Good Soldier Švejk. In the meantime the baroness...
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  • by Martin Frič, based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk. Saša Rašilov as Josef Svejk Oscar Marion as Lieutenant Karel Lukás (as Oskar...
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  • sequel to the 1923 novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. Schweyk in the Second World War is set in Nazi-occupied Prague and on the Russian Front...
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    books outside the US included the Czech book The Good Soldier Švejk, which sold 20 million copies. Songs of this decade included "Mack the Knife" and "Tiptoe...
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  • satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek it depicts the adventures of a simple Czech soldier during World War I. The film features Heinz...
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  • at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, appearing in its productions of The Good Soldier Švejk and two plays by Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage...
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    novel The Good Soldier Švejk is the most translated Czech book in history. The international literary award the Franz Kafka Prize is awarded in the Czech...
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  • behavior Gaming the system Learned helplessness Mass suicide Milgram experiment Patsy Peer pressure Perverse incentive Shill The Good Soldier Švejk Throffer...
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    to the temple..." Jaroslav Hašek, in the preface of his last novel The Good Soldier Švejk (1921–1923), compared Herostratus to the protagonist Švejk in...
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    Hašek, Jaroslav; Parrott, Sir Cecil (10 October 1985). The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140182743. Retrieved...
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  • The Good Soldier Švejk. The first of the Czech films starring Karel Noll, as the Good Soldier Švejk. Of these, it was the most closely based on the original...
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  • Hašek, Czech author, writer of The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and inventor, recipient of the Nobel prize Jaroslav Jakubovič...
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  • Arthur Bostrom (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    alumnus Sam Kelly) in the BBC radio dramatisation of The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek in November 2008, playing the part of Wendler. In November...
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  • Soldiers, a fictitious play in the 1994 Doctor Who New Adventures novel Theatre of War by Justin Richards The Good Soldier Švejk (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • Moskvě mezi světovou elitou Archived 2013-05-03 at the Wayback Machine "Jaroslav Hašek and his Švejk are still popular in Russia. More than 20 million...
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    written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable...
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  • Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk (category Works based on The Good Soldier Švejk)
    braven Soldaten Schwejk (Translated to The adventures of the good soldier Schwejk) is a television series produced by the ORF and ZDF and directed by Wolfgang...
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    charcoal", is mentioned in Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk. The work contains a reference to soldiers not dying in vain because their bones will...
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