One character in this novel known for giving long speeches explaining mundane objects is run over by a cart while giving animpromptu talk on the deÂfinition of pavement.
One character in this novel known for giving long speeches explaining mundane objects is run over by a cart while giving animpromptu talk on the deÂfinition of pavement. The author gives a self-portrait in a character who edits the magazine AnimalWorld before being Âred for inventing Âfictional beasts. In a chapter named for the protagonist's "Anabasis," he wanders thecountryside after being kicked o a train for accidentally hitting the emergency brake. The protagonist works for the alcoholicchaplain Otto Katz, who substitutes a sports trophy for the communion chalice and loses him in a poker game to Lukas. Themain character of this novel uses his experience as a dogcatcher to steal Colonel Kraus von Zillergut's dog as a giftft for his commandingofficer, who does not know the dog is stolen. This novel's title character is initially put in an asylum as unÂfit to serve,but goes to the front after his cleaning woman takes him to a recruiting office in a wheelchair. At the end, the title characteris arrested by his own troops after trying on a Russian soldier's uniform. For 10 points, name this picaresque novel about afoolish Czech infantryman by Jaroslav Hasek.
One character in this novel known for giving long speeches explaining mundane objects is run over by a cart while giving animpromptu talk on the deÂfinition of pavement.
The Good Soldier Svejk [accept Osudy Dobreho Vojaka Svejka za Svetove Valky]