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 Most people who never leave the geographical and social circuit of their own national culture and its constituent elements cannot even begin to imagine what Jaroslav Hašek underwent, as a real person, a thinking and feeling being on his anabasis through Europe and Asia between his joining the army and his return home. |
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Jarmila, Hašek’s wife, said this of her maligned husband:
"The honesty of Hašek’s work lies in that he would descend for his art all the way to the level of his [character] types to come to understand their relation to people and things. He sacrificed himself, a mother, a wife, a child, a friend – he laid everything he had on the altar of truth – and she revealed herself to him such as she is, a laughably crippled wretch, without trinkets and without a veil."
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What they say about Jaroslav Hašek
(on the Internet, that is ...)
Wikipedia
English broadcast of the Czech Radio
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Jaroslav Hašek 
by Nick Carey
As heard on the Czech Radio on 11/29/00
České vysílání Českého rozhlasu (Czech language broadcast of the Czech Radio)
Před 80 lety zemřel Jaroslav Hašek (text)
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autor Vilém Faltýnek
06-01-2003
The [Political] Sins of Jaroslav Hašek
Stanislav Jíra
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Jaroslav Hašek as an Austro-Hungarian soldier in 1915 |
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Writing for the Čechoslovan [Czechoslav] in Kiev while a member of the Czecho-Slovak Legions |
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The tall building on the left is the Kiev Hotel Praga (Prague) where Hašek lived and worked as an editor of the Čechoslovan magazine. |
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Hašek's letter of resignation from the Czecho-Slovak Legions. ( see translated version below)
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To the Branch of the Czechoslovak National Council.
I hereby let it be known that I do not agree with the policy of the Branch of the Czechoslovak National Council and with the departure of our corps to France.
Therefore I declare that I am leaving the Czechoslovak corps until such time that both within the corps and the National Council activities as a whole a new direction prevails.
I request that this decision of mine be noted. I will even now continue to work for a revolution in Austria and the liberation of our nation.
Jaroslav Hašek, in own hand
Read at the meeting 4/18/18
(illegible initials and signature)
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A photograph posted on the site of
Omsk State University in Russia
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"Politruki" ", i.e. "political leaders", of the 5th Army of the Soviet Red Army (Hašek sitting in the front row, third from the right. Detail image of Hašek below.)
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Hašek as a propagandist of the 5th Army.
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With wife Jarmila and son Richard
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The cottage Hašek bought in 1921 and moved into in summer 1922, located across the street from the pub in Lipnice on the Sázava river where he wrote Švejk books 2, 3 and 4.
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Jaroslav Hašek and his Russian wife Shura in Lipnice.
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The last photograph of Jaroslav Hašek, December 1922 |
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Commemorative stamp from the USSR
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Czechoslovak commemorative stamp
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