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by mcepl 819 days ago
Yes, they are only hilarious. Švejk on the other hand is in my opinion much more serious. One Czech literary critic call it even “Kafka by other means”. Yes, Hašek was a satiric writer, so that’s how he wrote, but Švejk is IMHO actually a serious book about the horror of a human being liquidated by the impersonal power of modern society.
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> about the horror of a human being liquidated by the impersonal power of modern society

it is now forbidden to call war by its name ? /s