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Jaroslav Hasek
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30 April 1883 - 3 January 1923
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Jaroslav Hasek (Jaroslav Hasek, 1883-1923), Czech satirist writer, was born on April 30 in Prague in the family of a gymnasium teacher. In 1899 he entered the Trade Academy, where he began to become interested in literature. The first publications appeared in the newspaper “Narodni sheets” in 1901. After graduation and before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1915, Hasek worked in a bank, edited magazines, and was a reporter and part-time editor for the national socialist newspaper
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Jaroslav Hasek (Jaroslav Hasek, 1883-1923), Czech satirist writer, was born on April 30 in Prague in the family of a gymnasium teacher. In 1899 he entered the Trade Academy, where he began to become interested in literature. The first publications appeared in the newspaper “Narodni sheets” in 1901. After graduation and before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1915, Hasek worked in a bank, edited magazines, and was a reporter and part-time editor for the national socialist newspaper Ceske Slovo. In the army he got the opportunity to deal with the description of the “history of the regiment”, and at the same time with poems and prose.
Once on the front of the First World War, Hasek participated in the battle at Mount Sokal and received a silver medal for bravery. Soon after this event, he surrendered to Russian captivity, after which he was in camps near Kiev, and then near Samara.
In 1918, Jaroslav Gashek joined the RCP(B) and the Red Army. In the newspaper of the Czech Left Social-Democrats in Russia, Prukopnik (The Pioneer), he urged his countrymen to "believe in the Russian revolution."
In 1920, Hasek returned to Czechoslovakia. He continued his literary activity, publishing humorous and satirical feuilletons in National Socialist, Liberal and Communist periodicals, where he ridiculed the Austrian bureaucracy, the Catholic Church, election fraud and other aspects of his modern life.
In total, during his creative activity, Yaroslav Hasek published more than a thousand stories and feuilletons, dozens of plays and two novels.
The most famous was the anti-militarist novel “The Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik during the World War” (1921-23). In a grotesque form, the author described the life and life of the common people. The story of the brave soldier – the main character of the work is traced through the entire creative path of the author: “The Tale of the Valiant Swedish Soldier” (1907), “The Brave Soldier Schweik and Other Amazing Stories” (1912, a collection of humoresques), “The Brave Soldier Schweik in Captivity” (1917, a story), “The Adventure of the Brave Soldier Schweik”. /