Jaroslav Hašek, Czech soldier and author (died 1923)

Jaroslav Hašek

Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist

Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War,…