After reading this book, my only conclusion is that a person with absurd experience, in seemingly absurd language, wrote the absurd experience of an absurd person who likes to explain the facts with absurd theories in an absurd age. This book is ridiculous, but no one will ever say that it is really ridiculous.
Author ya? Hasek himself is an anti-war fighter. He used sharp humor and satire to describe the turbulent war years in which he lived, and sometimes he did some ridiculous things to accuse the government of corruption and belligerence. 19 1 1 year, when the parliamentary elections were held in Austria-Hungary, Hasek organized a so-called "political party that advocates moderation and peace within the legal scope" and delivered a "campaign" speech in an inferior pub, which severely criticized the political and social system of Austria-Hungary. Later, he told people that it was to attract customers to that pub. The other happened at the beginning of the First World War. He checked into a hotel in Prague, filled in "Russia hostile to Austria-Hungary" in the column of "nationality" and "activities of spying on the Austrian General Staff" in the column of "What are you doing here". So, the stupid police station immediately sent people to surround the hotel, thinking that they could catch an important spy. When the truth came out, the police severely questioned him why he made such a joke during the war. Hasek replied sincerely that he was not at ease about the efficiency of the Austrian police because he wanted to test their vigilance. The policeman was in distress and sentenced him to five days' imprisonment. These things can be said to be ridiculous, but because of elegance? Hasek's disappointment with Austria-Hungary at that time and its essence were thoroughly understood before he could do such a thing. In order to write such a special novel as A Good Soldier and Handsome.
About the protagonist of this book, Shuaike, in the preface of the novel, Ya? Hasek gave his own evaluation: there is a humble and unknown hero who has neither Napoleon's fame nor his great achievements; However, if we analyze the character of this kind of person, even Alexander the Great will appear dim and colorless. If you really think this is the author's evaluation of Shuaike, after reading a few lines, you will find that this is a common-sense mistake. Shuaike has a strange way of thinking different from ordinary people. He puts a high hat on all kinds of unjust and inhuman things that happen to him, as if all these things should happen to him. When he was wrongly sentenced to prison, he even praised his prison room: "The toilet is in front of us, which shows how much the world has improved. Oh, yes, now everything is in our favor. " When he was called "thoughtless pig" by the chief, he gave a jaw-dropping explanation: "I don't think so, sir, because soldiers are not allowed to think." Obviously, isn't it? Hasek's evaluation of such a handsome guy can't be as great as he wrote in the preface, so as long as we understand this passage in reverse, we can get the actual evaluation: the handsome guy is not a hero at all, he is just a victim of current events, a stupid and sad fool.
All kinds of other ideas in Shuaike's mouth and mind are enough to explain his absurdity, but his absurdity is entirely caused by his time. Shuaike was originally a soldier, but was diagnosed as "mentally unsound" and sent back to China for rehabilitation. This is nothing, but such people are finally identified as deserters; At the beginning, the hotel owner Pariwitz just answered others, "Why did the original portrait of the emperor disappear?" The objective fact that "the fly left a pool of shit on it, so I put it in the pile house" was misinterpreted as "the fly shit on the emperor" and was arrested for treason. In the era of Shuaike's life, absurd things like the above were everywhere, and only a small part happened to Shuaike. We can guess more through Shuaike.
Huh? From the beginning of the novel, Hasek wrote a preface in an almost absurd tone, and then enriched the plot of the whole story with various absurd events, showing us a dark nature of the world during World War I, which is different from that recorded in history books.
Although this book is of little practical value to us modern people, it is indeed the standard to judge whether a person is the best authority. Moreover, this book is suitable for people of all ages and will not cause any bad effects, such as making people handsome.
The above two paragraphs are pure nonsense, but elegant in such an absurd form? Hasek's tribute is just right.
Attachment: preface of a good soldier and a beautiful man
Great people must appear in great times. There is a humble and nameless hero who has neither Napoleon's fame nor his great achievements. However, if we analyze this kind of person's personality, even Alexander the Great will appear dim and colorless. Walking on the street in Prague today, you will meet a person who doesn't feel any importance in the history of this great new era at all. He went his own way humbly, and no one bothered him. At the same time, no reporter bothered him and asked to meet. If you ask his name, he will say in a simple and humble voice, "I am Shuaike."
And this man who is taciturn, unpretentious and poorly dressed is exactly what we know as a good soldier Shuai Ke. When Bohemian citizens were still under Austrian rule, they paid tribute to this brave and upright man. Today, although we have established a Republic, its glory will not fade away.
I like the good soldier Shuaike very much. When describing his adventures in the Great War, I believe readers will certainly resonate with this humble and unknown hero. He didn't set fire to the goddess temple in Ephesus, just because his stories could be published in newspapers or compiled into textbooks, just like the fool Hector Rostra.
That's enough.