好兵帥克 "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hašek 。插畫家 Josef Lada 1887 – 1957 in Prague)

 The Golden Age Of Illustration

Eileen Vivell  ·   · 

Received this pretty illustration yesterday as a vintage postcard 1957 from Czechia.

By Josef Lada (born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice, Bohemia – 14 December 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery) was a Czech painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War I novel The Good Soldier Švejk, having won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1963.

Also famous is an illustrated children’s book about a black cat.

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 好兵帥克 "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hašek

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"The best thing you can do...is to pretend to be an idiot." --Jaroslav Hašek, author of the satirical WWI novel THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK, who died on this day in 1923.

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Jaroslav Hasek(1883- )／星燦／允晨／捷克


“Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.”
―from "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek



“After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.”

―from "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hašek


The eponymous hero of The Good Soldier Svejk— the book for which the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek will forever be remembered—has virtually come to define, since his creation in the aftermath of World War I, the spirit of comic endurance necessary to withstand the manglings of a modern-day bureaucratic war machine. Shrewd, affable, possessed of an unerring talent for finding himself in (and extricating himself from) the most fitfully chaotic and absurd situations, Svejk represents, in his instinct for survival, all those human values which stand opposed to the utter futility of warfare. With an introduction from, and translated by, Cecil Parrott.