"Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence."Peter Steiner, 'Tropos Kynikos: "Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk"', Poetics Today 19:4 (1998), pp.469-98.
Untold hundreds of thousands and perhaps even millions of Americans experience and operate in "švejkárna". This is a relatively new, younger derivation of the original term "švejking". "Švejking" is the method for surviving "švejkárna", which is a situation or institution of systemic absurdity requiring the employment of "švejking" for one to survive and remain untouched by it.
"Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence."Peter Steiner, 'Tropos Kynikos: "Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk"', Poetics Today 19:4 (1998), pp.469-98.
Untold hundreds of thousands and perhaps even millions of Americans experience and operate in "švejkárna". This is a relatively new, younger derivation of the original term "švejking". "Švejking" is the method for surviving "švejkárna", which is a situation or institution of systemic absurdity requiring the employment of "švejking" for one to survive and remain untouched by it.