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Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence. "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.
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SCULPTURE
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September 7, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.
The
Mouth of Truth - The
INTERNational
Memorial of Eavesdropping And Wiretapping
is to be unveiled at the Quarry #2 in Lipnice on the Sázava River.
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In the Saddle
At Last
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An equestrian memorial to Jaroslav Hašek designed by the late Czech sculptor Karel Nepraš and
erected by the artist's daughter Karolína Neprašová
in the Prokopovo Square in Prague on October 5,
2005.
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June 23, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.
Bretschneider's Ear -
The INTERNational
Memorial of Eavesdropping And Wiretapping
was unveiled in Lipnice on the Sázava River.
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Hors D'oeuvre à la Jurajda
['yoo-rai-dah] - An Apotheosis of Consumerist Lifestyle
was unveiled in Lipnice on the Sázava River on December 10, 2005 at 4:45 p.m.
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April 11, 2003 a bronze statue of Josef Švejk
was unveiled in the Balkan Square
in St. Petersburg, Russia. The statue cost 1 million rubles, i.e. about $300,000.
(Present at the ceremony and seen standing to the left in the picture was, among others, Richard Hašek, the grandson of Švejk's author, Jaroslav.)
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A news brief
about the first public statue
of Josef Švejk in the world
erected in the town of Humenné
appears in the last paragraph of this news wrap up in Prague-on-line.
(More about
Humenné,
including the film The Shop on the Main Street
,
Obchod na korze in the original Slovak, from an original story by Ladislav Grosman.
The film won the 38th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar award
for the best foreign film of 1965
.)
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