The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book(s) Three & Four

So.I've finally finished the tale of "The Good Soldier Svejk".In reviews of the first two books, I discussed how important the new translation is into deepening the reader's experience with the book - and that can't be understated, but I won't belabor it here. I wouldn't have finished Hašek's story had it not been for the Sadlon translation. His translation was illuminating, where Parrot's was not. Additionally, updating it into modern English, made it a significantly smoother read to boot.In t [...]

I was an editorial consultant on this new English translation. Thus I read it--with a microscope, multiple times--before it was published. Not as smooth as, but more faithful and interesting than, the standard Parrott translation.No doubt Jaroslav Hasek’s favorite way to pass the time was to sit in a pub drinking beer and talking with friends. So it was with his character Josef Svejk. I had the unsurpassed pleasure in 2004 of sitting in the Czech Crown Inn of Lipnice, where Hasek wrote the clo [...]

OK, I've been putting off this review long enough. I worked my way through all four books (three volumes) of Sadlon's translation of this classic of Czech literature, and though it may make me a bad Czech, I felt pretty neutral about it. Much like Tristram Shandy, and to some extent Don Quixote, the book is more or less a piling-up of marginally related stories, "just one damn thing after another." The novel is unfinished--Hasek died while writing it--but because of this fundamental characterist [...]

OPINIA Z 10 SIERPNIA 20121 listopada 2012 zacząłem czytać pierwsze dwa tomy Szwejka, które skończyłem po bardzo długim czasie 24 grudnia tego samego roku. Jeśli chodzi o moje szczegółowe zapamiętywanie dat, to jest to pewien fetysz, lubię sobie wspominać, co i kiedy danego dnia czytałem. Często nawet dzień kończenia tytułu nie jest przypadkowy, a z premedytacją wydłużony, by był bardziej "okrągły" lub "uroczyściejszy". Data rozpoczęcia i ukończenia książki, to dwa wy [...]

Všechny 4 díly se moc dobře četly, je škoda, že Hašek nestihl dílo dokončit.Je to takové milé, ale nedá se souhlasit s tím, že Čechové by byli národ Švejků, to bychom museli být všichni retardovaní.