Schweyk in the Second World War
By: Bertolt Brecht ; translated by William Rowlinson
Contributors: Rowlinson, W., translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama; Characters; Josef Švejk; World War, 1939-1945
Work titles: Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg
Description: In Jaroslav Hašek's original 'The Good Soldier Švejk', Švejk, a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, drifts through the carnage of the First World War, a picaresque study in brio that parodies the noble claims of the warring nations, while depicting the horror of their conflict. Brecht masterfully deploys this character in the Second World War as a counter-actor to the Nazi regime decimating Europe. He wrote it while in exile in the US during the Second World War.
Notes: Translated from the German.