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1. So.I ve finally finished the tale of The Good Soldier Svejk.In reviews of the first two books, I discussed how important the new translation is into deepening the reader s experience with the book and that can t be understated, but I won t belabor it here I wouldn t have finished Ha ek s story had it not been for the Sadlon translation His translation was illuminating, where Parrot s was not Additionally, updating it into modern English, made it a significantly smoother read to boot.In the final [...]

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2. I was an editorial consultant on this new English translation Thus I read it with a microscope, multiple times before it was published Not as smooth as, but faithful and interesting than, the standard Parrott translation.No doubt Jaroslav Hasek s favorite way to pass the time was to sit in a pub drinking beer and talking with friends So it was with his character Josef Svejk I had the unsurpassed pleasure in 2004 of sitting in the Czech Crown Inn of Lipnice, where Hasek wrote the closing books a [...]

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3. OK, I ve been putting off this review long enough I worked my way through all four books three volumes of Sadlon s translation of this classic of Czech literature, and though it may make me a bad Czech, I felt pretty neutral about it Much like Tristram Shandy, and to some extent Don Quixote, the book is or less a piling up of marginally related stories, just one damn thing after another The novel is unfinished Hasek died while writing it but because of this fundamental characteristic, I don t t [...]

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4. OPINIA Z 10 SIERPNIA 20121 listopada 2012 zacz em czyta pierwsze dwa tomy Szwejka, kt re sko czy em po bardzo d ugim czasie 24 grudnia tego samego roku Je li chodzi o moje szczeg owe zapami tywanie dat, to jest to pewien fetysz, lubi sobie wspomina , co i kiedy danego dnia czyta em Cz sto nawet dzie ko czenia tytu u nie jest przypadkowy, a z premedytacj wyd u ony, by by bardziej okr g y lub uroczy ciejszy Data rozpocz cia i uko czenia ksi ki, to dwa wyj tkowe dni w poprzednim roku Z tego powodu [...]

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5. V echny 4 d ly se moc dob e etly, je koda, e Ha ek nestihl d lo dokon it.Je to takov mil , ale ned se souhlasit s t m, e echov by byli n rod vejk , to bychom museli b t v ichni retardovan.

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