/lit/ - Literature

Humbly report sir, I won't fare very well.

Other than Junger, what's some good WWI lit written by the Central Powers?
Pic related, of course
I had a fitful night's sleep last night after reading Sassoon's lines
"Then I remembered someone that I'd seen
Dead in a squalid, miserable ditch,
Heedless of toiling feet that trod him down.
He was a prussian with a decent face,
Young, fresh, and pleasant, so I dare to say.
No doubt he loathed the war and longed for peace..."

I thought of Svejk and I almost teared up.

I'm reading the Good Soldier Svejk right now, "the most widely translated Czech novel" and it was great for the first half, but it should have ended much sooner. It's just an ingrown series of in-jokes at this point. The author has dispensed with plot in favor of a series of satirical episodes, each of which is either redundant or obscure. I hate long books that do this.
Thanks for making me read though OP; I'm 20 pages closer to being finished with this.

The Good Soldier Švejk

Doesn't get much more lovable than pic related.

I'd like to know this too; it's on my list to read - I've heard it best to avoid any of the Penguin editions...

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.

This book is really getting to me. I'm only 1/3rd done or so and I already know this is going to be one of my all time favorites. I'm feeling a little bit of what Harold Bloom feels for Hamlet and Falstaff with this protagonist (on top of being really funny.)

That humor is the optimism that sits at the top of Švejk's moral outrage and deep fear of losing his life for a country that he doesn't give a damn about. The humor is courage, and it's tremendous. The humor is the "fuck you, you can't hit me where it counts."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_Švejk

Has anyone here read this book? Is it worth reading/buying?

just finished reading Švejk. Any other czech authors i should check? inb4 kafka or kundera.

Good evening /lit/, I've a favor to ask from you.
I have read "the good soldier Švejk" By Jaroslav Hašek multiple times now, I consider it to be one of my favourites.
I need a similar work-ridiculing the pointlessness of war and corruptness and/or ineptitude of leaders/juggernauts.

Will consider every suggestion. Thanks in advance!

Eat your heart out, Heller