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* TheAlcoholic: From the amounts of booze consumed, most of the characters. Note that those amounts are quite realistic, as Czechs are among the greatest drinkers of the whole Europe. Moreover, the author himself was a hopeless drunkard, so he wrote from experience. The most prominent example is probably Chaplain Katz.
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* CompositeCharacter: Švejk himself, who is a complex mix of the eponymous soldier from the 11th company, parts of Hašek's own experience (like his dog business), and one more of his innumerable friends, real Lieutenant Lukas' batman, František Strašlipka, from whom Švejk gets his [[TheStoryteller storyteller's]] tendencies.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Švejk's friend, sapper Vodička 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 away.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Švejk's friend, sapper Vodička 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 away.and his body away into the river Drina.
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* RomanAClef: Most of the characters are based on the real people Hašek knew during his service and his life as a Prague journalist and bohemian.
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* EatTheEvidence: When the army is stationed in Bruck an der Leitha, Oberlieutenant Lukáš sees a pretty married woman, Mrs. Kákonyi in the theater, and orders Švejk top deliver a love letter to her. Švejk as usual, screws things up and ends up in a street fight. Colonel Schröder tells Lukáš what happened afterwards:
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** Subverted by the protagonist, 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.
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highly subjective. Ten years amongst Czech students left me with completely different impressions
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* AmericansHateTingle: Czechs as a rule… aren't the fans of the novel. Perhaps author's stated intention of portraying the "true soul" of a nation struck too close to home, or it's Hašek left leanings, being contrary to thoroghly bourgeous national spirit, but no, despite acknowledging (albeit grudgingly) the literary significance and merits of the novel, and gleefully exploiting the hordes of the foreign tourists it brings in, they still don't like it.
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* CaptainObvious: General von Zillergut suffers from "a mania for explanations", feeling the need to explain even the simplest of concepts.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Švejk's friend, sapper Vodička 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 away.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Švejk's logtime friend, sapper Antonin Vodička, was physically unable to see a Gonved[[note]]The semi-independent Hungarian Armed Forces, which had their own separate chain of command, their own uniforms etc.[[/note]] uniform without thoroughly dismantling its contents, though in his case it was largely due to the good oldfashioned racism, as he couldn't stand ''any'' Hungarians, not just soldiers.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Švejk's logtime friend, sapper Antonin Vodička, was physically unable to see a Gonved[[note]]The semi-independent Hungarian Armed Forces, which had their own separate chain of command, their own uniforms etc.[[/note]] uniform without thoroughly dismantling its contents, though in his case it was largely due to the good oldfashioned racism, as he couldn't stand ''any'' Hungarians, not just coldiers.soldiers.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Švejk's logtime friend, sapper Antonin Vodička, was physically unable to see a Gonved[[note]]The semi-independent Hungarian Armed Forces, which had their own separate chain of command, their own uniforms etc.[[/note]] uniform without thoroughly dismantling its contents, though in his case it was largely due to the good oldfashioned {{racism}}, as he simply couldn't stand Hungarians.
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* KickedUpstair: A common way of dealing with the officers who are too out of their gourd even by the pretty loose standards of the Two-Headed Monarchy, but [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections with too much connections]] to be kicked out.
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* KickedUpstair: KickedUpstairs: A common way of dealing with the officers who are too out of their gourd even by the pretty loose standards of the Two-Headed Monarchy, but [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections with too much connections]] to be kicked out.
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* KickedUpstair: A common way of dealing with the officers who are too out of their gourd even by the pretty loose standards of the Two-Headed Monarchy, but [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections with too much connections]] to be kicked out.
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* TheBookCipher: Used at one point when the officers are briefed on the newest cipher method, which apparently is a variant of the book cipher based upon the pages 160 and 161 of a German novel "''Die Sünden der Väter''". However, the book used is a novel in two volumes and Švejk, when ordered to deliver them to the battalion officers, was not informed that it was the second part which was needed and delivered the first tomes only, keeping the second volumes in storage, believing that 'they gentlemen officers would surely like to read the novel in the proper order, as anyone else, and after they had read the first part they'd be issued with the second part'. {{Hilarity ensues}} during the briefing, when only officer-cadet Biegler was [[TooDumbToFool brave enough to point out]] that the example given does not make any sense, while other officers just kept calm and quietly assumed that their regimental colonel finally went completely bananas and would be soon [[KickedUpstairs promoted to the war ministry]].
-->''In your example, the first word of the deciphered message is "Auf"[[note]]on[[/note]] but ours had come out "Heu"[[note]]hay[[/note]]!''
-->''In your example, the first word of the deciphered message is "Auf"[[note]]on[[/note]] but ours had come out "Heu"[[note]]hay[[/note]]!''
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* HangingJudge: 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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* LostHimInACardGame: Chaplain Katz loses Švejk to Lukáš in a game of cards.
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* AmericansHateTingle: Czechs as a rule… aren't the fans of the novel. Perhaps author's statet intention of portraying the "true soul" of a nation struck too close to home, or it's Hašek left leanings, being contrary to thoroghly bourgeous national spirit, but no, despite acknowledging (albeit grudgingly) the literary significance and merits of the novel, and gleefully exploiting the hordes of the foreign tourists it brings in, they still don't like it.
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* BringMyBrownPants: A soldier mentions that crapping your pants is very common in battles:
-->' Not long ago one of the chaps who was wounded told us in Budejovice that when they were advancing he shitted three times in succession: first when they were climbing up from cover to the space before the barbed-wire entanglement; a second time when they started cutting the wire, and a third time when the Russians rushed at them with their bayonets and shouted "Hurrah.' Then they began to run back to the trenches and in their unit there wasn't a single man who hadn't shitted.
-->' Not long ago one of the chaps who was wounded told us in Budejovice that when they were advancing he shitted three times in succession: first when they were climbing up from cover to the space before the barbed-wire entanglement; a second time when they started cutting the wire, and a third time when the Russians rushed at them with their bayonets and shouted "Hurrah.' Then they began to run back to the trenches and in their unit there wasn't a single man who hadn't shitted.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in it all entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include jis experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].
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* TheStoryteller: Švejk has an endless collection of anecdotes, and he tells them at every opportunity.
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* EatTheEvidence: When the army is stationed in Bruck an der Leitha, Oberlieutenant Lukáš sees a pretty married woman, Mrs. Kákonyi in the theater, and orders Švejk top deliver a love letter to her. Švejk as usual, screws things up and ends up in a street fight. Colonel Schröder tells Lukáš what happened afterwards:
-->When they took that man to the guard-house after the brawl they found on him the letter you had sent to Mrs Kákonyi. Your Svejk alleged under cross-examination that it was not your letter, but that he had written it himself. However, when it was shown to him and he was asked to copy it to compare the handwriting with his own, he ate it up.
-->When they took that man to the guard-house after the brawl they found on him the letter you had sent to Mrs Kákonyi. Your Svejk alleged under cross-examination that it was not your letter, but that he had written it himself. However, when it was shown to him and he was asked to copy it to compare the handwriting with his own, he ate it up.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: [[TheNeidermeyer 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 EnsignNewbie with MilesGloriosus aspirations.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: [[TheNeidermeyer 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 EnsignNewbie with MilesGloriosus aspirations. (When the two are confronted at the end of the novel, Biegler comes out as more sympathetic).
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* ReallyGetsAround: Oberlieutenant Lukáš, Švejk and Marek's company commander.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Oberlieutenant Lukáš, Švejk and Marek's company commander.commander was quite the womanizer before being sent to the front.
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* CantGetInTroubleForNuting: A military doctor, Friedrich Welfer, used to receive a yearly allowance until he got his doctoral degree. Since this allowance was bigger than his payment as a doctor would have been, he purposely prolonged his studies as long as possible. However, when the war broke out, he had to take a "military exam", and received his doctorate despite writing "Lecken Sie mich am Arsch!" (meaning "Kiss my ass") to every question.
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* CantGetInTroubleForNuting: A military doctor, Friedrich Welfer, used to receive a yearly allowance until he got his doctoral degree. Since this allowance was bigger than his payment as a doctor would have been, he purposely prolonged his studies as long as possible. However, when the war broke out, he had to take a "military exam", and received his doctorate despite writing "Lecken Sie mich am Arsch!" (meaning "Kiss my ass") to every question.
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* UnfriendlyFire: According to Svejk's friend, sapper Vodička, fragging is common in the Austro-Hungarian army.
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* TheAlcoholic: From the amounts of booze consumed, most of the characters. Note that those amounts are quite realistic, as Czechs are among the greatest drinkers of the whole Europe. Moreover, the author himself was a hopeless drunkard, so he wrote from experience.
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* DraftDodging: 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 [[PlayedForLaughs played]] for [[BlackComedy 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 the protagonist, 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.
** Later into the book, one-year volunteer Marek[[note]]One-year volunteer - [[GratuitousGerman Einjährigfreiwilliger]] - is his rank in the [[TheSoundOfMartialMusic Austrian military]], a designation for a "reserve officer candidate", he was actually drafted.[[/note]] is introduced, who describes his failed attempts to catch rheumatism - he slept in gutters in rain and bathed in 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 brothel daily, but he [[STDImmunity 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.
-->''"That precious soul had not deceived me. And so finally I had my muscular rheumatism."''
** Subverted by the protagonist, 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.
** Later into the book, one-year volunteer Marek[[note]]One-year volunteer - [[GratuitousGerman Einjährigfreiwilliger]] - is his rank in the [[TheSoundOfMartialMusic Austrian military]], a designation for a "reserve officer candidate", he was actually drafted.[[/note]] is introduced, who describes his failed attempts to catch rheumatism - he slept in gutters in rain and bathed in 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 brothel daily, but he [[STDImmunity 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.
-->''"That precious soul had not deceived me. And so finally I had my muscular rheumatism."''
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: His unhealthy bohemian lifestyle, the tribulations of war, and the personal problems since his return to Czechoslovakia did little to improve the author's health. Hašek contracted typhoid and tuberculosis in Russia, but while he got the first mostly healed up, once he returned home and got the cold shoulder from most of his former colleagues, his TB worsened, and though his situation later improved, his health did not, and he died January 3rd, 1923, having completed less than half of the planned novel.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Lukáš is an incessant womanizer, but he's a competent, honorable officer, which is a rarity in this book. This is a reflection of Hašek's own experience, as he struck a good note with his own company commander and Lukáš's prototype, Rudolf Lukas, who also has has high opinion of him. Their battallion commander, captain Sagner, is one as well, though he's more ambiguous, being a reputed GloryHound and having WeHaveReserves tendencies.
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** Cadet Biegler even keeps a notebook trying to analyze historical battles -- though his works better resemble TheBeautifulGame strategies rather than military analyses.
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* ModernMajorGeneral: General von Zillergut, "General of Latrines", general von Finkelstein… well, most of the Austrian top officers are dumbnuts who got their posts entirely through their familiy connections.
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* TheNeidermeyer: Lieutenant Dub, Ensign Dauerling, General von Finkelstein...
* ModernMajorGeneral: General von Zillergut, "General of Latrines",general General von Finkelstein… well, most of the Austrian top officers are dumbnuts who got their posts entirely through their familiy connections.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: [[TheNeidermeyer 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 EnsignNewbie with MilesGloriosus aspirations.
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* WeHaveReserves: The general attitude about the war in Viennese high circles.
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* AuthorAvatar: Hašek didn't even try to hide the book's autobiographical roots and try to mask hos avatar. ''Every'' story told about the "fat volunteer" Marek, the bumbling journalist and Švejk's [[HeterosexualLifePartners inseparable alter ego]], is based on some anecdote from Hašek's own life. It is Hašek who went AWOL with a fake infirmary log, it is him who edited an agricultural almanac — trying to imitate Creator/MarkTwain's story as close to life as possible, it is Hašek who've traded in stolen dogs (albeit he attributed it to Švejk in the novel)…
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* AuthorAvatar: Hašek didn't even try to hide the book's autobiographical roots and try to mask hos his avatar. ''Every'' story told about the "fat volunteer" Marek, the bumbling journalist and Švejk's [[HeterosexualLifePartners inseparable alter ego]], is based on some anecdote from Hašek's own life. It is Hašek who went AWOL with a fake infirmary log, it is him who edited an agricultural almanac — trying to imitate Creator/MarkTwain's story as close to life as possible, it is Hašek who've traded in stolen dogs (albeit he attributed it to Švejk in the novel)…
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fans still cannot decide whether Švejk is this or JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Švejk to Chaplain Katz, a bumbling [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] military priest who later loses his services to Lukáš in a game of cards.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fans still cannot decide whether Švejk is this or JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk. A lot of his pranks are decidedly nasty, and as he gets any hint of authority, he tends to abuse it to the hilt.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fans still cannot decide whether Švejk is this or JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk. A lot of his pranks are decidedly nasty, and as he gets any hint of authority, he tends to abuse it to the hilt.
* RefugeInAudacity: Just about any moment, though the story how Švejk got himself and Lukáš sent to front [[note]]by stealing their colonel's dog as a present to his Lieutenant[[/note]] and his "Anabasis" through Southern Bohemia take the cake.
* TheScrounger: Vanek the Quartermaster. A former chemist and an OldSoldier, he knows his stuff.
* SergeantRock: Feldwebel (Sergeant Major) Vanek, [=11th=] company's Quartermaster. Though cynical and self-serving, he's nevertheless competent, reliable, and as much of TheScrounger as possible.
* TheScrounger: Vanek the Quartermaster. A former chemist and an OldSoldier, he knows his stuff.
* SergeantRock: Feldwebel (Sergeant Major) Vanek, [=11th=] company's Quartermaster. Though cynical and self-serving, he's nevertheless competent, reliable, and as much of TheScrounger as possible.
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* WhatAnIdiot: About half of the whole officer corps depicted in the book. The other half are self-serving cynical bastartds.
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'''''The Good Soldier Švejk''''' is an unfinished [[{{Satire}} satirical]] [[WarIsHell anti-war]] novel by the Czech author and political activist Jaroslav Hašek. Originally named ''Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války''[[note]]''Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk in the World War''[[/note]] it is, [[CaptainObvious naturally]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tells us about the adventures of a titular soldier in a]] WorldWarOne. Such dry description, however, couldn't even try to approach the [[RuleOfFunny irreverent hilarity]] of the book, that from its very first lines sets to lampoon, satirize and hang to dry just about everything Hašek finds objectable in the Two-Headed Monarchy and [[ArmedFarces its military]]. Unfortunately, due to AuthorExistenceFailure (Hašek died in 1923 from tuberculosis) the novel got only about half-finished, with Hašek completing just three parts out of intended six. [[ExecutiveMeddling The publisher insisted]] on the rest [[PosthumousCollaboration being completed by his friend Karel Vanek]], 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 Czech literature.
The novel revolves around the titular soldier, a born and bred ''Pražák'' Josef Švejk, about whom even the author [[ShrugOfGod cannot seem to decide]], whether he is out to subvert all the idiocy around him through ObfuscatingStupidity, his blue-collar wits and common sense, and [[BotheringByTheBook 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 [[VestigialEmpire 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 [[ObstructiveBureaucrat bureaucratic scaffolding]], this produced a lot of [[SurroundedByIdiots glaring, visible idiocy around]] for everyone to see, and a lot of [[DeadpanSnarker cynical, snarky people]] just trying to get by through it. Now, take everything said above, and try to [[UpToEleven put it into a military setting]] — and you'll see why Creator/JosephHeller once said that had he read the novel before, he'd never write ''Literature/{{Catch-22}}''.
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!!This book provide examples of the following tropes:
* AmericansHateTingle: Czechs as a rule… aren't the fans of the novel. Perhaps author's statet intention of portraying the "true soul" of a nation struck too close to home, or it's Hašek left leanings, being contrary to thoroghly bourgeous national spirit, but no, despite acknowledging (albeit grudgingly) the literary significance and merits of the novel, and gleefully exploiting the hordes of the foreign tourists it brings in, they still don't like it.
* ArmchairMilitary: A lot of officers in the book, who generally have zilch of real combat experience, though cadet Biegler, an EnsignNewbie [[SmallNameBigEgo with delusions of grandeur]] and [[TheNeidermeyer Lieutenant Dub]], [[SadisticTeacher a former teacher]] and [[WhatAnIdiot a monumental cretin]], jump forth the first.
* ArmedFarces: Nothing escapes the author's satire.
* AuthorAvatar: Hašek didn't even try to hide the book's autobiographical roots and try to mask hos avatar. ''Every'' story told about the "fat volunteer" Marek, the bumbling journalist and Švejk's [[HeterosexualLifePartners inseparable alter ego]], is based on some anecdote from Hašek's own life. It is Hašek who went AWOL with a fake infirmary log, it is him who edited an agricultural almanac — trying to imitate Creator/MarkTwain's story as close to life as possible, it is Hašek who've traded in stolen dogs (albeit he attributed it to Švejk in the novel)…
* BigEater: Oberlieutenant Lukáš's second batman, Baloun, in civilian life a miller from Český Krumlov, who is such a glutton that he constantly eats his officers meals before being able to deliver them to him. Only after he's put on double portions he gets satisfied somewhat.
* GentleGiant: Baloun, who is kind, simple and, frankly speaking, [[DumbMuscle not very bright]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fans still cannot decide whether Švejk is this or JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk.
* ModernMajorGeneral: General von Zillergut, "General of Latrines", general von Finkelstein… well, most of the Austrian top officers are dumbnuts who got their posts entirely through their familiy connections.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: The common agreement about Švejk this day, though the author himself was much more ambiguous, and his notes and letters don't support the idea that he intended Švejk to be a subversive character.
* ReallyGetsAround: Oberlieutenant Lukáš, Švejk and Marek's company commander.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Only not so loosely in most cases. Most of events and people in the book were indeed based on the real events and people, though often embellished and reinterpreted by the author.
* WhatAnIdiot: About half of the whole officer corps depicted in the book. The other half are self-serving cynical bastartds.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in it all entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include jis experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].
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The novel revolves around the titular soldier, a born and bred ''Pražák'' Josef Švejk, about whom even the author [[ShrugOfGod cannot seem to decide]], whether he is out to subvert all the idiocy around him through ObfuscatingStupidity, his blue-collar wits and common sense, and [[BotheringByTheBook 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 [[VestigialEmpire 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 [[ObstructiveBureaucrat bureaucratic scaffolding]], this produced a lot of [[SurroundedByIdiots glaring, visible idiocy around]] for everyone to see, and a lot of [[DeadpanSnarker cynical, snarky people]] just trying to get by through it. Now, take everything said above, and try to [[UpToEleven put it into a military setting]] — and you'll see why Creator/JosephHeller once said that had he read the novel before, he'd never write ''Literature/{{Catch-22}}''.
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!!This book provide examples of the following tropes:
* AmericansHateTingle: Czechs as a rule… aren't the fans of the novel. Perhaps author's statet intention of portraying the "true soul" of a nation struck too close to home, or it's Hašek left leanings, being contrary to thoroghly bourgeous national spirit, but no, despite acknowledging (albeit grudgingly) the literary significance and merits of the novel, and gleefully exploiting the hordes of the foreign tourists it brings in, they still don't like it.
* ArmchairMilitary: A lot of officers in the book, who generally have zilch of real combat experience, though cadet Biegler, an EnsignNewbie [[SmallNameBigEgo with delusions of grandeur]] and [[TheNeidermeyer Lieutenant Dub]], [[SadisticTeacher a former teacher]] and [[WhatAnIdiot a monumental cretin]], jump forth the first.
* ArmedFarces: Nothing escapes the author's satire.
* AuthorAvatar: Hašek didn't even try to hide the book's autobiographical roots and try to mask hos avatar. ''Every'' story told about the "fat volunteer" Marek, the bumbling journalist and Švejk's [[HeterosexualLifePartners inseparable alter ego]], is based on some anecdote from Hašek's own life. It is Hašek who went AWOL with a fake infirmary log, it is him who edited an agricultural almanac — trying to imitate Creator/MarkTwain's story as close to life as possible, it is Hašek who've traded in stolen dogs (albeit he attributed it to Švejk in the novel)…
* BigEater: Oberlieutenant Lukáš's second batman, Baloun, in civilian life a miller from Český Krumlov, who is such a glutton that he constantly eats his officers meals before being able to deliver them to him. Only after he's put on double portions he gets satisfied somewhat.
* GentleGiant: Baloun, who is kind, simple and, frankly speaking, [[DumbMuscle not very bright]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fans still cannot decide whether Švejk is this or JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk.
* ModernMajorGeneral: General von Zillergut, "General of Latrines", general von Finkelstein… well, most of the Austrian top officers are dumbnuts who got their posts entirely through their familiy connections.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: The common agreement about Švejk this day, though the author himself was much more ambiguous, and his notes and letters don't support the idea that he intended Švejk to be a subversive character.
* ReallyGetsAround: Oberlieutenant Lukáš, Švejk and Marek's company commander.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Only not so loosely in most cases. Most of events and people in the book were indeed based on the real events and people, though often embellished and reinterpreted by the author.
* WhatAnIdiot: About half of the whole officer corps depicted in the book. The other half are self-serving cynical bastartds.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in it all entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include jis experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].
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