TY - BOOK AU - Hašek,Jaroslav AU - Corner,Mark AU - Grus,Jiří TI - Behind the lines: Bugulma and other stories SN - 9788024625805 AV - PG5038 .B445 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - [Prague, Czech Republic] PB - Karolinum Press KW - Hašek, Jaroslav, KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Commanding Officer, Town of Bugulma; Second-in-Command to the Commanding Officer, Town of Bugulma; The Via Dolorosa; A Strategic Hitch; Bugulma's Glory Days; New Dangers; Potemkin's Villages ; There Is a Hitch with the Prisoners; Before the Revolutionary Tribunal of the Eastern Front; The Supreme Truth which Is Chên-shih; Cross Purposes; Shake the Dust from your Shoes; How I Came to Meet the Author of my Obituary; The Fun of Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923); Translator's Note and Acknowledgement; CONTENTS; 2; b N2 - Jaroslav Hašek is a Czech writer most famous for his widely read if incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI soldier. Hašek was remarkably prolific, and he wrote hundreds of short stories that all display both his extraordinary gift for satire and his profound distrust of authority. Here, in a new English translation, are a series of short stories based on Hašek's experiences as a Red Commissar in the Russian Civil War and his return to Czechoslovakia. First published in the Prague Tribune, these nine stories are considered to be some UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=935505&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -