Editing Jaroslav Hašek (section)

== Works ==
Initially Hašek wrote mainly travel stories, features and humoresques, which he published in magazines. He wrote most of his works in Prague pubs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SPŠE Olomouc, Literatura, Jaroslav Hašek |url=http://www.literaturaspse.ic.cz/Hasek.html |access-date=2 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830224954/http://www.literaturaspse.ic.cz/Hasek.html |archive-date=30 August 2011 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.starysmichov.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2007090009 |title=Klub přátel starého Smíchova, Jaroslav Hašek |access-date=14 September 2021 |archive-date=5 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205092721/http://www.starysmichov.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2007090009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

His prose was based on his own real experiences, confusing investigation of his actual life, because it is not always clear what is true and what is only poetic hyperbole.

Hašek hated pretense, sentimentality, settled life, to which he ironically reacted in satiric verse. Another characteristic feature of his work is resistance to moral and literary conventions.

In his life, he wrote about 1,200 short stories. Most of his short prose is scattered throughout various magazines and newspapers. Over the years nearly all the stories have been collected and printed in book's form. Some texts may however have been lost, for example, the story "The History of the Ox."<ref name="Panorama" /> There is also a number of texts of which Hašek's authorship is likely, but not confirmed.

Words flowed easily from his pen, but this does not mean that he was not creative. [[František Langer]] stated that "he was attracted, controlled, absorbed by writing, driven by his almost passionate passion for his writing."<ref name="Suchomel">{{Cite journal
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| first1 = Milan
| title = Jaroslav Hašek a Josef Švejk, dvě pochybné existence
| journal = Časopis HOST
| language = cs
| url = http://casopis.hostbrno.cz/archiv/2013/4-2013/jaroslav-hasek-a-josef-svejk-dve-pochybne-existence
| access-date = 1 August 2017
| archive-date = 7 August 2017
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His most famous text by far, the four-part humorous novel ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk|The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War]]'', has been translated into 58 languages and several times filmed and dramatized. Individual parts of the novel have the names: "In the Background (1921)", "At the Front (1922)", "Famous Spanking (1922)" and "Unfinished Continuation of the Famous Spanking" (1923). Hašek's most important work is associated by many people with congenial illustrations by [[Josef Lada]]. Hašek did not manage to complete the book. The completion of the work by [[:cs:Karel Vaněk|Karel Vaněk]] is far from Hašek's original conception. Vanek's completion was based on the continuation of 1921, but was highly criticized ([[:cs:Viktor Dyk|Viktor Dyk]], [[:cs:Jaroslav Durych|Jaroslav Durych]], [[František Xaver Šalda|F. X. Šalda]] etc.). At first, the work had few followers. [[Ivan Olbracht]] was probably the first to mark it as a major work in the cultural section of ''[[Rudé právo]]''. "It is one of the best books ever written in the Czech Republic, and Svejk is quite a new type in world literature, equivalent to [[Don Quixote]], [[Hamlet]], [[Faust]], [[Oblomov]], [[Karamazov]]," Olbracht wrote.<ref name="Suchomel"/> [[Karel Čapek]], [[Josef Čapek]], [[Julius Fučík (journalist)|Julius Fučík]] and [[Vítězslav Nezval]], who connected Hašek's work with [[Dadaism]], also adopted a positive attitude,<ref>{{Cite journal
| title = Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války II. Na frontě. Čte Oldřich Kaiser
| journal = Vltava
| date = 13 July 2017
| language = cs
| url = https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/jaroslav-hasek-osudy-dobreho-vojaka-svejka-za-svetove-valky-ii-na-fronte-5948709
| access-date = 2 August 2017
| archive-date = 2 August 2017
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170802203933/https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/jaroslav-hasek-osudy-dobreho-vojaka-svejka-za-svetove-valky-ii-na-fronte-5948709
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}}</ref> as did [[Devětsil]] theoretician [[Bedřich Václavek]]. Discussions on the value of the work continued in later years. For example, [[Václav Černý (writer)|Václav Černý]] opposed Švejk, but a wide range of Czech literary theorists, artists, and intellectuals had other views – the philosopher [[Karel Kosík]] saw the novel as "an expression of the absurdity of the alienated world"; he described Švejk as the "tragic bard of European nihilism. The aesthetist [[:cs:Jan Grossman|Jan Grossman]] associated Švejk with existentialism; the literary theorist [[Jindřich Chalupecký]] described Švejk as the "tragic bard of European nihilism,"; and the writer [[Milan Kundera]] described the novel as "the pure irrationality of history.".<ref>{{cite book
| last = Oleg
| first = Malevič
| title = V perspektivě desetiletí
| date = December 2015
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=T4DXCwAAQBAJ&q=Ha%C5%A1ek+v+Bugulm%C4%9B&pg=PA131
| publisher = Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
| at = 399 pages
| isbn = 9788024628448
| language = cs
| access-date = 2 October 2020
| archive-date = 14 September 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210914060735/https://books.google.com/books?id=T4DXCwAAQBAJ&q=Ha%C5%A1ek+v+Bugulm%C4%9B&pg=PA131
| url-status = live
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Švejk has been dramatized several times, Hašek himself performed the first dramatization for the [[:cs:Emil Artur Longen|Emil Artur Longen]] "Revolutionary Scene"; in 1928 Švejk turned into a theater performance of Hašek's friend [[Max Brod]], in 1963 by [[Pavel Kohout]]. The international adaptation was achieved by the adaptation of ''[[Schweik in the Second World War]]'' by the German playwright and director [[Bertold Brecht]].