To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first part of Jaroslav Hašek's classic The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války) in 1921, Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) in New York invites you to a nonstop online reading (in English) of Part One of the novel in Cecil Parrot's translation.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 2:00 pm until midnight EDT
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first part of Jaroslav Hašek's classic The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války) in 1921, the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) in New York invites you to its nonstop online reading in English. Did you know that The Good Soldier Švejk is the most translated Czech novel? Joseph Heller said that if he had not read it, he would never have written Catch-22.
Readers across the globe will take turns reading. They will include actors, translators, scholars, students, and other friends of Czech culture. At 2 pm EDT. Václav Paris, Professor of Comparative Literature at City College, will provide a brief introduction. Christopher Harwood, Lecturer in Czech at Columbia University, will moderate the event. The reading will continue until the end of Part One, whenever that may be. Reading locations will include New York, Prague, London, Rome, Istanbul, Upsala, Oman's Salalah, Los Angeles, Chicago, and others.
The event is organized by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU NY) with the support of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA) in New York. The media partner is Czech Center NY.
Check out new Švejk Ilustrations:
What is the face of Josef Švejk? Contemporary Czech illustrators are looking for an answer. The fate of the good soldier Švejk is celebrated one hundred years after the first issue. The canonical artistic form was given to them by the artist Josef Lada, but Švejk's face is not the subject of Hašek's novel, and most of Lada's illustrations were also created after the author's death. What would Švejk look like if we look away from the Lada? The ČT24 website addressed contemporary Czech illustrators with this question. See new Švejk's reincarnations here.
