Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Get "svejked" !


(Illustration by Josef Lada)

I was delighted to recieve an e-mail today from Zenny K. Sadlon, aka 'dainfomaster', regarding a post I made back in feb listing the top 10 books of our book club members. It seems that he is an enthusiast of Svejk, and all things svejkish (?). His slogan is: -

Švejkologists of the world . . . come together!

you can explore all things svejk at his sites: -

www.zenny.com

and

http://www.svejkcentral.com/

This blew me away in a way that Nick experienced when that bird contacted him after one of his posts. It's an amazing feeling.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I remember, I remember ... Spol Skecial Svejk!

There is also a biography in English of Hasek that I remember fondly. It is by a retired diplomat called something like Parrot.

Hasek's involvement with "The Party for Reasonable Progress within the Bounds of the Law" is as ridiculous and profound as his fiction.

10:51 pm  
Blogger Zenny K. Sadlon said...

You are most likely refering to Parrott’s "Bad Bohemian: The Life of Jaroslav Hašek" which is apparently a legally plagiarized version of Radko Pytlik’s work, published with an agreement of the injured party who had no other option under the circumstances.

3:16 am  

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