Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek was born in Prague on 30 April 1883, the son of a mathematics teacher; his family, poor, moved constantly. A journalist and anarchist, he founded in 1911, in a brewery in Vinohrady, a mock party, the Party of Moderate Progress within the Limits of the Law, and wrote about fifteen hundred stories; drink weighed more and more on his life. Enlisting as a volunteer in 1915, he let himself be captured by the Russians, served in the Czech units in Russia, then in the Red Army. Back in Prague in December 1920, he died in Lipnice on 3 January 1923.

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• NovelThe Good Soldier ŠvejkOsudy dobrého vojáka ŠvejkaJaroslav Hašek · 1921LiteraturePublic domain