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The Good Soldier Å vejk

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The Good Soldier Å vejk	comment	The Good Soldier Å vejk is an unfinished satirical anti-war novel by the Czech author and political activist Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek. Originally named Osudy dobrÃ©ho vojÃ¡ka Å vejka za svÄ›tovÃ© vÃ¡lkynote Adventures of the Good Soldier Å vejk in the World War it, naturally, tells us about the adventures of the titular soldier in World War I. Such dry description, however, couldn't even try to approach the irreverent hilarity of the book, that from its very first lines sets to lampoon, satirize and hang to dry just about everything HaÅ¡ek finds objectionable in the Two-Headed Monarchy and its military. Unfortunately, due to HaÅ¡ek dying in 1923 from tuberculosis, the novel got only about half-finished, with HaÅ¡ek completing just three parts out of intended six. The publisher insisted on the rest being completed by his friend Karel VanÄ›k, though it ended up not as good and is rarely republished today, unike the original portion of the novel, which is the most translated book in the whole of Czech literature.The novel revolves around the titular soldier, a born and bred PraÅ¾Ã¡k Josef Å vejk, about whom even the author cannot seem to decide, whether he is out to subvert all the idiocy around him through Obfuscating Stupidity, his blue-collar wits and common sense, and dumb insolence; or he's indeed just as stupid as almost everyone around him seems to think. You see, the novel being set in a vast, archaic and crumbling Hapsburg Empire, where the Czechs like him (and the author) were considered Second Class Citizens at best, and which, like so many crumbling empires before, tried to prop itself by an extensive and intricate bureaucratic scaffolding, this produced a lot of glaring, visible idiocy around for everyone to see, and a lot of cynical, snarky people just trying to get by through it. Now, take everything said above, and try to put it into a military setting â€” and you'll see why Joseph Heller once said that had he not read the novel before, he'd never write Catch-22.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_120a6a29	comment	Artistic Licence â€“ History: Literally. In-Universe example. One-year volunteer Marek, when appointed battalion historian, decided it's more important what is written about the heroic deeds of the battalion than any actual heroic acts. And more fun too, proceeding to imagine future victorious engagements of the battalion and curious incidents in which his companions were going to perish.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_14b85a5f	type	Fat Idiot
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_14b85a5f	comment	Fat Idiot: Å vejk and Marek subvert this due to Obfuscating Stupidity, while Baloun plays this straight.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_159ce749	comment	FÃ¤nhrich Dauerling learnt his lesson that terror towards soldiers was essential for successful training from a book named Drill or Education - except that Drill oder Erziehungnote Which is how the title is quoted in the HaÅ¡ek's original text. was a 1883 essay by archduke Johann Salvator, which criticized drilling practices of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army, emphasizing the need for education of enlisted men and promoting initiative of noncoms and junior officers instead.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_17e530e1	type	Punctuation Shaker
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_17e530e1	comment	Punctuation Shaker: The paragraph about ubiquitous paragraphs:
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_183b52	comment	Kafka Komedy: Å vejk enlists voluntarily, despite being so crippled with rheumatism he actually can't walk. And he's then immediately sent to the special hospital ward for malingerers and then to the garrison gaol, to be Court-martialed for Draft Dodging.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Played for Laughs, Jurajda says "According to Darwin's theory, humans descended from carps". Also played for laughs when one-year volunteer Marek reminiscences about his stint as the editor of magazine called The Animal World - when he ran out of his useful tips on farm animals and bee-keeping (which caused havoc in the areas where his tips were adhered to), he resorted to literally inventing something fresh - new animals with outrageously pseudoscientific names, improbable habitats and physiology. He also got involved in lengthy polemics with the editor of another journal, after Marek published photo of a jay sitting on a walnut tree, therefore rechristening it "nutcracker", which he later supported with vulgarities and false quotations from Alfred Brehm, claiming e.g. that jays belong in the family ''Crocodilia''.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Å vejk, when separated from a billeting party, came upon a Russian uniform, discarded by an escaped POW, and put it on, to 'test whether it would suit him and would be comfortable to wear'. Mistaken for a runaway Russian he's been arrested and when he revealed his nationality, sentenced to death by General Fink as a defector. His candid admission that he did put on the Russian uniform out of his own free will didn't help him either. Of course he got better, when it's realized there was no way to defect to the Russian Army hundred miles behind the frontline.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Lieutenant LukÃ¡Å¡. Or so we've been told. He takes only one exception - he invariably hates his batmen. Until Å vejk's antics drove him rather desperate.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Ensign Dauerling, despite being memetically dumb Jerkass who frightens the enlisted men and baffles his superiors, is known only from mentions by other characters.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1c5c049d	type	Picaresque
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1c5c049d	comment	Picaresque: Random Events Plot centered on the certified idiot surviving by Obfuscating Stupidity (or real one — the jury's still out) and tall tales he tells.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1f050d03	type	Squad Nickname
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1f050d03	comment	Squad Nickname: The 91st Infantry Regiment is apparently known in-universe as 'The Parrot-regiment' (Papagairegiment) due to its parrot-green facings colour.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1f799027	comment	Å vejk is awaiting court martial almost immediately after his enlistment, charged with "malingering". He's saved by Chaplain Katz who wants him for a batman. (And an incompetent Obstructive Bureaucrat judge advocate who somehow completely lost the records of Å vejk's case.)
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Quite popular among dumbernote Case in point: Lieutenant Dub and/or more naivenote See Cadet Biegler characters, while everyone who is a bit smarter (and therefore more cynical) laughs at the patriotic hysteria.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Å vejk once knew a pub-keeper who had a Bible quotation for any occasion and when he flogged brawlers with a knout always used to say: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes - I'll teach you to fight in my pub!" Also his fellow soldier, one-year volunteer Marek (otherwise completely non-religious), is revealed to be fond of (mis)quoting the Scripture when playing cards, e.g.: And then there's also that moment when Å vejk quotes (in a low voice) to Lt. Dub (in response to Dub's order to "get lost"): â€œA little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.â€�
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Whenever Å vejk mentions some historical events, he ties them to 1914 landmarks.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Lieutenant Dub, whose Catchphrase is "You don't know me, but you'll know me!" Cadet Biegler also qualifies, but he is more of a Ensign Newbie with Miles Gloriosus aspirations. (When the two are confronted at the end of the novel, Biegler comes out as more sympathetic).
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b0ab826	type	BlackHumour
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b0ab826	comment	Black Humour: Author's default response to various absurdities of the war and Austrian military and bureaucracy.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: A soldier mentions that crapping your pants is very common in battles:
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b6f65f0	type	ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b6f65f0	comment	LukÃ¡Å¡ and Å vejk are posted to the 91st regiment and then sent to the front due to several Å vejk's screw-ups - first with the dog stolen from Colonel Kraus as Å vejk's gift for LukÃ¡Å¡ and then after the street fight Å vejk and VodiÄ�ka started while delivering a love letter from LukÃ¡Å¡ to Mrs. KÃ¡konyi.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b98ddb5	type	Liquid Courage
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2b98ddb5	comment	Liquid Courage: Invoked by Quartermaster VanÄ›k who regards rum and wine as the essential element for morale on the front.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Å vejk once knew a pub-keeper who had a Bible quotation for any occasion and when he flogged brawlers with a knout always used to say: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes - I'll teach you to fight in my pub!"
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: An old priest learned that Saint Augustine of Hippo denied the existence of antipodesnote Actually, he wrote that there was no proof other continents existed or were reachable and even called round Earth a contested hypothesis; from that he merely concluded to seek City of God elsewhere. and started harrassing his servant woman, who was getting money from a son in Australia. After he damned her in church he was sent to a nuthouse.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Cadet Biegler is nicknamed "Stork's wing with fish tail" by other officers - early in his military career he claimed that he's descended from minor nobility (their family name originally being "BÃ¼gler von Leuthold") with stork's wing and fish tail in coat of arms - and never lived it down.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Plenty, but KÃ¡konyi's reaction to the love letter to his wife is, perhaps, the biggest one: "Baszom az anyÃ¡t, baszom az istenet, baszom a Krisztus MÃ¡rjÃ¡t, baszom az atyadot, baszom a vilÃ¡got!" It's never translated from Hungarian, and for a good reason: "I fuck your mother, I fuck god, I fuck Christ's Mary, I fuck your father, I fuck the whole world." (In the Hungarian translation, it is changed to a milder swear.)
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Justified, as German was the primary language of the Austro-Hungarian military. Some of the military terminology hadn't even existed in Czech prior to 1918 and enlisted personnel often used phonetically adapted German words, as they do in the book. This tends to get Lost in Translation or substantially toned down, at the very least.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Baloun, who is kind, simple and, frankly speaking, not very bright.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_38aa15db	type	Directionless Driver
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_38aa15db	comment	Directionless Pedestrian: Å vejk during his "Anabasis" through Southern Bohemia - he insists that he's going to BudÄ›jovice to join his regiment and refuses to take any advice on the route from anyone,note It makes some sense - it's established that he's served in the region with the 91st Infantry Regiment earlier in peacetime and supposedly knows the local geography from field training exercises. despite actually mostly walking in the opposite direction. Unsurprisingly he's mistaken for a deserter by just any character he encounters. With the exception of Gendarmerie Sergeant Flanderka, who mistakes him for a crafty Russian spy.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_3dec5d4e	type	Reminiscing About Your Victims
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_3dec5d4e	comment	Reminiscing About Your Victims: In a letter to his family, General Finkelstein decribes in great details the executions he arranged (though in those cases, the victims managed to escape by sheer luck).
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: General von Zillergut suffers from "a mania for explanations", feeling the need to explain even the simplest of concepts.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Å vejk has an endless collection of anecdotes, and he tells them at every opportunity. Over the course of the book, he adds some stories about Chaplain Katz and Oberleutnant LukÃ¡Å¡ to his collection.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Fans still cannot decide whether Å vejk is this or Jerk with the Heart of a Jerk. A lot of his pranks are decidedly nasty, and as he gets any hint of authority, he tends to abuse it to the hilt.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_486b0458	comment	Draft Dodging: A variety of men try to avoid conscription by pretending to be ill, resorting to injecting gasoline into their legs and other outlandish methods (all played for comedy). The army has a special "hospital" for malingerers, where they put them on a strict diet, and, among other things, wrap them in wet sheets - even the ones who really have tuberculosis. Subverted by Å vejk, who volunteers, despite suffering from rheumatism so bad that he can't even walk, and he's wheeled to the recruitment office by his charwoman. He's then promptly sent to the above-mentioned special hospital ward. Later into the book, one-year volunteer Mareknote One-year volunteer - EinjÃ¤hrigfreiwilliger - is his rank in the Austrian military, a designation for a "reserve officer candidate", he was actually drafted. is introduced, who describes his failed attempts to catch rheumatism - he slept in gutters in rain and bathed in an icy river - which only hardened him to cold, so he felt perfectly fit after spending whole night sleeping on snow. He also tried to catch a venereal disease, visiting a brothel daily, but he remained immune. Finally he met a disabled soldier who injected him with something which made him suffer a "real rheumatism" so he can hardly move.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The landscape in latter chapters, when the battalion is approaching the frontline, through the regions where heavy fighting took place recently.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4ba29ebb	type	Lost Him in a Card Game
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4ba29ebb	comment	Lost Him in a Card Game: Chaplain Katz loses Å vejk to LukÃ¡Å¡ in a game of cards.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first few chapters Å vejk often seems to be really plain dumb, not (possibly) just playing it. The character only really appears to grow when serving as Chaplain Katz's batman.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero\Politically Incorrect Villain: Nearly everyone in this novel is bigoted against some nation or social group. Except for Å vejk - he seems to despise everyone equally.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: And it's not even finished. (The 2005 Penguin Classics edition is 784 pages long).
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: LukÃ¡Å¡ and Å vejk are posted to the 91st regiment and then sent to the front due to several Å vejk's screw-ups - first with the dog stolen from Colonel Kraus as Å vejk's gift for LukÃ¡Å¡ and then after the street fight Å vejk and VodiÄ�ka started while delivering a love letter from LukÃ¡Å¡ to Mrs. KÃ¡konyi. Jurajda, the learned cook, is assigned to the 11th march company by Colonel SchrÃ¶der after he repeatedly miscalculated number of rations for the officers' dinner (while drunk) and SchrÃ¶der was thus deprived of his favourite food. Battalion medical officer Dr. Welfer was posted to the front-line unit after he was found to be 'too lenient' to soldiers in rear-area military hospitals.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_58bf7895	comment	Eat the Evidence: When the army is stationed in Bruck an der Leitha, Oberleutnant LukÃ¡Å¡ sees a pretty married woman, Mrs. KÃ¡konyi in the theater, and orders Å vejk to deliver a love letter to her. Å vejk as usual, screws things up and ends up in a street fight. Colonel SchrÃ¶der tells LukÃ¡Å¡ what happened afterwards:
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_5f0546a2	comment	The Scrounger: VanÄ›k the Quartermaster. A former chemist and an Old Soldier, he knows his stuff.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Oberleutnant LukÃ¡Å¡'s second batman, Baloun, in civilian life a miller from ÄŒeskÃ½ Krumlov, who is such a glutton that he constantly eats his officer's meals before being able to deliver them to him. Only after he's put on double portions does he get satisfied somewhat.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The general attitude about the war in Viennese high circles.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Volunteer Marek recounts his succesfull unauthorized leaves from a military hospital, for which he acquired a big, officially looking book, which he labeled "Krankenbuch des 91. regt" in large letters and carefully filled with fake patients' names and their medical history and then used instead of a pass during his regular all-night visits to pubs.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: The Neidermeyer FÃ¤nhrich Dauerling,note In the Austro-Hungarian military junior officers were personally leading the basic drilling, along with NCOs. who once read the book Drill or Educationnote Genius Bonus Drill oder Erziehung was a 1883 essay by archduke Johann Salvator, which effectively ended his military career, as he criticized drill practices of the Imperial and Royal Army, advocating education of enlisted men and initiative of junior officers instead. where he learnt that terror towards soldiers was essential for successful training; Feldwebel Sondernummer, corporals Althof and MÃ¼ller and other examples are talked about. Most of them apply the Authority Equals Asskicking approach towards recruits. Played with the protagonist, who on one occasion subjected Baloun to a punishment drill session, after he caught him stealing his food. Å vejk invokes many a trope of a typical Austro-Hungarian drill instructor and - with Baloun being rather inept soldier - Hilarity Ensued - which came as unsettling enough even for Hauptmann SÃ¡gner to in turn punish Å vejk with a rifle drill session under Feldwebel NasÃ¡klo. Subverted with Feldwebel NasÃ¡klo - advertised as the meanest tyrant in the regiment - when he's ordered to give an hour of punishment drill to Å vejk, he soon suffers a mysterious collapse - as Å vejk was still pleasantly chatting with him during the rifle drill session. It is implied that Å vejk drove him nuts with his incessant anecdotes: one of the peculiar features of his storytelling is a frequently lampshaded inability of the listener to decide whether they are a case of a simple idiocy, or the carefully crafted dumb insolence.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6383a034	comment	When they're leaving the stockade in comes one-year volunteer Marek, who's charged with The Mutiny, because he refused to clean the latrines, despite repeated direct orders. He treats it as a huge joke and is quite justified, as the court rules that - due to his one-year volunteer status - he was within his rights when refusing to perform such a menial task.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: HaÅ¡ek had surprisingly sharp memory for details. A lot of jokes become even better when sufficiently researched. Why did one malingerer eat arsenic? To imitate cholera symptoms. One madman thinks he's the volume XVI of the Otto dictionary, and asks to open him at the article about book-binding machine. The best part? The article he needs is in volume XIV. Å vejk used to darken old dogs with silver nitrate. But in one dialogue he mistakenly calls it fulminating silver — a different silver salt, an explosive. Many translators don't get the joke and translate it as nitrate anyway. One unscrupulous paint and solvent shop sells terpentine as Kopai balsam. But Kopai balsam is a kind of terpentine, albeit distilled from a specific South American tree. FÃ¤nhrich Dauerling learnt his lesson that terror towards soldiers was essential for successful training from a book named Drill or Education - except that Drill oder Erziehungnote Which is how the title is quoted in the HaÅ¡ek's original text. was a 1883 essay by archduke Johann Salvator, which criticized drilling practices of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army, emphasizing the need for education of enlisted men and promoting initiative of noncoms and junior officers instead.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: HaÅ¡ek didn't even try to hide the book's autobiographical roots and try to mask his avatar. Every story told about the "fat volunteer" Marek, the bumbling journalist and Å vejk's inseparable alter ego, is based on some anecdote from HaÅ¡ek's own life. It is HaÅ¡ek who went AWOL with a fake infirmary log, it is him who edited an agricultural almanac â€” trying to imitate Mark Twain's story as close to life as possible, it is HaÅ¡ek who traded in stolen dogs (albeit he attributed it to Å vejk in the novel)â€¦
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6ac5926f	type	Insane Admiral
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6ac5926f	comment	Insane Brigadier: During the railway journey through Hungary the battalion started receiving telegrams with weird orders from its brigadier, such as: "Finish cooking, then quick march to Sokal. Intelligence service is abolished. Details in newspapers." (This becomes a minor Running Gag, with slightly differently worded telegram in each station they stopped.) They're informed that he went mad, but since his madness was not officially acknowledged by the army yet, they must be delivered. On the other hand, they don't have to obey the orders, since the telegrams are not correctly enciphered.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6b35bdff	comment	Starving malingerers in Dr. GrÃ¼nstein's hospital are described as discussing various delicacies with fervor and dedication of gourmets or students of cordon bleu cuisine school. Minor subversion: some stuff they describe sounds rather unpleasant — many wouldn't want fried goose scratchings, if they can afford a choice. And then one of them sings praise to the beef suet cracklings,note Beef fat has a higher melting temperature than a human body as anyone who handles a beef suet can attest, and gives them very unpleasant mealy texture. even though he's somewhat defensive about it, saying they're good, if still warm. And then there's one who mentions horse cracklings...
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lieutenant Dub, whose name means "oak" and is a common slur for an idiot in all Slavic languages.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Prior to the outbreak of war Å vejk was small-time dealer in dogs. His methods are described basically as "he falsified dog pedigrees for living" - and he's quite fond of recalling them. A household chemicals shop is described as selling every client what they ask for. Å vejk asked for holy oil blessed by bishop and got lamp oil number 5.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_716d9138	comment	In one episode Å vejk narrates how during his previous peacetime service a soldier of the regiment 'succeeded in stabbing a dragoon in a Bar Brawl over some girl', and special roll-call was ordered, to be listent to a special regimental order, that stabbing dragoons is forbidden, as they are soldiers too and Kriegskameraden.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Quartermaster Sergeant VanÄ›k is essentially this as he runs the company administration. For example, Lieutenant LukÃ¡Å¡ can not persuade him to find him another batman, despite Baloun often eating his rations, because VanÄ›k opines that Baloun is so incompetent as a soldier that in any other position he would make more harm and LukÃ¡Å¡ just has to deal with him. As a solace, though, he puts Baloun on double portions, so that he, at least, would stop eating LukÃ¡Å¡' meals every time. Note that in the Habsburg military, the unit commander usually had two senior noncom assistants, one for administrative duties, and another for military ones. An offhand mention in the novel seems to indicate that VanÄ›k actually wears both hats, making him a somewhat overworked, but unusually powerful noncom.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_762b9223	comment	A variety of men try to avoid conscription by pretending to be ill, resorting to injecting gasoline into their legs and other outlandish methods (all played for comedy). The army has a special "hospital" for malingerers, where they put them on a strict diet, and, among other things, wrap them in wet sheets - even the ones who really have tuberculosis.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7923b4e7	type	The Oldest Profession
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7923b4e7	comment	Å vejk tells a story of a brothel which boasted about having a mermaid as one of their workers... who was actually an old fat whore with legs covered by green fabric. She worked as a one-woman sideshow at daytime and as a regular prostitute at night.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7c8a4602	type	Horsing Around
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7c8a4602	comment	Horsing Around: Lieutenant Dub at one point decides to show-off his alleged equestrian skills. He's found some time later, very neatly planted in a small bog.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7eebe99c	comment	Company Quartermaster-Sergeant VanÄ›k, due to both his occupation (i.e. administration and logistics specialist) and personal preferences. He survived several disastrous campaigns when most of the unit was otherwise lost, by being "accidentally in the rear", supervising delivery of the rum rations. This is lampshaded by Lieutenant LukÃ¡Å¡.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Å vejk tells a story of a brothel which boasted about having a mermaid as one of their workers... who was actually an old fat whore with legs covered by green fabric. She worked as a one-woman sideshow at daytime and as a regular prostitute at night. One officer recalls fun parties when his colleague would play a mermaid by stuffing a herring's tail in the ass.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: According to Å vejk's friend, sapper VodiÄ�ka, fragging is common in the Austro-Hungarian army. He remembers murdering one of their own company soldiers who volunteered to execute Serbian civilians. There are also other mentions of the incompetent Glory Hound officers wasted by their own troops.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman Ã Clef: Most of the characters are based on the real people HaÅ¡ek knew during his service and his life as a Prague journalist and bohemian.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_88dee3b3	type	Talks Like a Simile
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_88dee3b3	comment	Talks Like a Simile: The protagonist's stories, to the point it's not entirely clear if he's playing the Obfuscating Stupidity card or just ... just means it.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_92192cf9	type	RefugeInVulgarity
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_92192cf9	comment	Also played for laughs when one-year volunteer Marek reminiscences about his stint as the editor of magazine called The Animal World - when he ran out of his useful tips on farm animals and bee-keeping (which caused havoc in the areas where his tips were adhered to), he resorted to literally inventing something fresh - new animals with outrageously pseudoscientific names, improbable habitats and physiology. He also got involved in lengthy polemics with the editor of another journal, after Marek published photo of a jay sitting on a walnut tree, therefore rechristening it "nutcracker", which he later supported with vulgarities and false quotations from Alfred Brehm, claiming e.g. that jays belong in the family ''Crocodilia''.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_95b7c400	comment	Played with the protagonist, who on one occasion subjected Baloun to a punishment drill session, after he caught him stealing his food. Å vejk invokes many a trope of a typical Austro-Hungarian drill instructor and - with Baloun being rather inept soldier - Hilarity Ensued - which came as unsettling enough even for Hauptmann SÃ¡gner to in turn punish Å vejk with a rifle drill session under Feldwebel NasÃ¡klo.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: "You remind me of/It reminds me of" is basically Å vejk's Catchphrase, leading to numerous stories he retells In-Universe in great detail. Sometimes he just amuses his listeners, but some of them are driven quite to desperation, as he's unfaillingly polite and completely unoffensive, yet simultaneously often quite annoying.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_9c092ab0	type	Armed Farces
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_9c092ab0	comment	Armed Farces: Nothing escapes the author's satire.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_9e1548b4	comment	This is another autobiographical element, as HaÅ¡ek's maternal family were the Old Retainers to the princes of Schwarzenberg, the largest landowners in the Czech lands, and he often fondly remembered the times spent at his grandfather's farm in Southern Bohemia.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: In-Universe - chaplain Katz is described as sometimes being so drunk he improvs entirely new prayers, new Holy Mass and even entirely new liturgy. At one moment he sings a Silly Love Song about Virgin Mary from his pulpit.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The common agreement about Å vejk this day, though the author himself was much more ambiguous, and his notes and letters don't support the idea that he intended Å vejk to be a subversive character. On the other hand, in his afterword to the first volume, HaÅ¡ek wrote that "hearing people who use phrase 'Dumb as Å vejk' probably means I have not quite achieved my goal with this book".
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: General Fink von Finkenstein, who works as a judge under martial law. His favorite pastime is sentencing people to death; he makes the procedure so quick that he doesn't even say the required "In the name of His Majesty you are condemned to death by hanging" just "I condemn you".
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a91f77d9	type	Dirty Old Monk
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_a91f77d9	comment	Dirty Old Monk: Chaplain Katz is a priest, who cares little for his duties for Church, instead focusing on drinking, gambling and chasing skirts. He spent the night before his consecration in a brothel.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Å vejk's friend, sapper VodiÄ�ka has a savage sense of justice. He hates Hungarians, attacks them even without provocation, and he thinks nothing of hitting women. However, he also mentions that when he was in Serbia, the soldiers were offered cigarettes for hanging comitadji (supposedly partisans, but actually just civilians, including women and children). When his company found out that one of their members is doing that, they murdered him one night and threw his cigarettes and his body away into the river Drina.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_b7475a74	type	Bothering by the Book
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_b7475a74	comment	Bothering by the Book: How Å vejk's behaviour often comes out. The jury is still out whether it's his intention.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_b7920c43	comment	Å vejk used to darken old dogs with silver nitrate. But in one dialogue he mistakenly calls it fulminating silver — a different silver salt, an explosive. Many translators don't get the joke and translate it as nitrate anyway.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Discussed Trope, as volunteer Marek jokingly speculates that war rape is some kind of human allogamy.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_bb82c453	type	Modern Major General
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_bb82c453	comment	Modern Major General: General von Zillergut, "General of Latrines", General von Finkelsteinâ€¦ well, most of the Austrian top officers are dumbnuts who got their posts entirely through their familiy connections.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Lieutenant Dub, Ensign Dauerling, General von Finkelstein...
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: In one episode Å vejk narrates how during his previous peacetime service a soldier of the regiment 'succeeded in stabbing a dragoon in a Bar Brawl over some girl', and special roll-call was ordered, to be listent to a special regimental order, that stabbing dragoons is forbidden, as they are soldiers too and Kriegskameraden. Å vejk's longtime friend, sapper AntonÃn VodiÄ�ka, was physically unable to see a HonvÃ©dnote The semi-independent Hungarian Armed Forces, which had their own separate chain of command, their own uniforms etc. uniform without thoroughly dismantling its contents, though in his case it was largely due to good old-fashioned racism, as he couldn't stand any Hungarians, not just soldiers. Colonel SchrÃ¶der isn't that different, and after VodiÄ�ka with Å vejk started a huge fight with Hungarians in streets of KirÃ¡lyhida/Bruck an der Leitha, which led to massive backlash in Hungarian press, quite frankly states to Lieutenant LukÃ¡Å¡ that in his opinion the real problem is "constant Hungarian agitation against Austrian regiments", and that all people from the Austrian part of the monarchy, regardless of their ethnicity, are just better than Hungarians anyway. His intervention later saved them from the Court Martial. In Ensign Dauerling's story there is a mention that one of the worst transgressions of an infantry soldier in the peacetime is getting caught by an artillery or Landwehr's patrol while AWOL. When Marek was arrested for boxing the ears of an artillery Lieutenant (whom he mistook for his friend in darkness), the only mitigating circumstance colonel SchrÃ¶der can find is: Everyone despises the reserve officers. Lieutenant Dub is a prime example, though in his case it was made worse by the fact that Dub himself is a petty, vindictive idiot with delusions of grandeur. Cadet Biegler, another reserve officer, while often condescendingly dismissed as an Ensign Newbie that he was, is generally treated much more sympathetically. When the battalion aproaches the front, there are mentioned rather strained relations with the German Armynote With a Hanoverian Colonel so mean and ugly looking that he scared shit from the Austro-Hungarian brigade commander and an off-hand mention that upon meeting some Bavarians, soldiers of Å vejk's company started fight with them. too - with a bit of We ARE Struggling Together.
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The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: HaÅ¡ek was a good cook and and often paid his friends for crashing at their homes with cooking. When he described cooking and eating, he invoked wrote from experience. Exotic local foods give hell for translators: Starving malingerers in Dr. GrÃ¼nstein's hospital are described as discussing various delicacies with fervor and dedication of gourmets or students of cordon bleu cuisine school. Minor subversion: some stuff they describe sounds rather unpleasant — many wouldn't want fried goose scratchings, if they can afford a choice. And then one of them sings praise to the beef suet cracklings,note Beef fat has a higher melting temperature than a human body as anyone who handles a beef suet can attest, and gives them very unpleasant mealy texture. even though he's somewhat defensive about it, saying they're good, if still warm. And then there's one who mentions horse cracklings... This scene repeats closely when arrested soldiers in the guardhouse remember one of their fellow inmates, a rich peasant amply supplied by his relatives, who never shared anything with them â€” for which they've once stolen all his provisions just to teach him a lesson. Chaplain Lacina who drunkenly stumbled into a prisoner's railcar with Å vejk and Marek - after he sobered up - started waxing lyrical on importance of good cuisine, with examples of foods he ate, details on his favourite sauce preparation, and alleged references to food in the biblical context. Most of Baloun's narrations describes what and how much he ate before the war. Or what he's going to eat after the war's end. Note that as Baloun in civil life was a rich farmer â€” a miller â€” most of his recollections were of an internationally famous Southern Bohemian country cuisine, a Food Porn indeed. This is another autobiographical element, as HaÅ¡ek's maternal family were the Old Retainers to the princes of Schwarzenberg, the largest landowners in the Czech lands, and he often fondly remembered the times spent at his grandfather's farm in Southern Bohemia.
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