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.

A SOCIETAL PHENOMENON

Švejk at Googlism.com

Challenges of translating Švejk into English: A report on the experimental project of its “Chicago version”

Society for Rejuvenating Immortality of Jaroslav Hašek April 24, 2006 Workshop

The International Jaroslav Hašek Society's 2003 Conference press release in Czech and English .

The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds Of the Law

Švejk "On The Ice" a.k.a., Švejk does hockey

'Švejkism' and the Czech Accession to the EU

Švejk and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact countries

The planet Švejk

Chat with a Virtual Character-The Švejk Project . Listen to a Czech demonstration system that allows for informal voice chatting with virtual characters. Legendary novel figure Svejk is the first personality who can be interviewed in the recently implemented version. (svejk.avi , 2.6 Mb)

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Švejk marionette

Instrumental psychosis: the Good Soldier Svejk syndrome . Polish Svejk Fan Club ASCII art

The Švejk Phenomenon, a Ukrainian book on 'švejkology'.

An August 31, 2001 Radio Free Europe report of a Hašek Museum Being Set up in Bugulma, i.e. Bögelmä, Tatarstan. Jaroslav Hašek served there as a Deputy Commissar for the Red Army in October through December 1918. Hašek's "memorial apartment", a.k.a. the J. Gashek's Literary Memorial Museum (as listed in Russian on the Tatarstan National Museum's list of museums in Tatarstan). The  e-mail address of Hašek's Museum in Bugulma" m1814@mail.museum.ru . Streets were named after Jaroslav Hasek ('Gasek' in the Russian language as in its alphabet there is no letter or the sound 'H') in Kiev, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, and St. Petersburg, to name a few places.

A Russian river ship Jaroslav Hašek

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An August 31, 2001 Radio Free Europe report of a Hašek Museum Being Set up in Bugulma, i.e. Bögelmä, Tatarstan. Jaroslav Hašek served there as a Deputy Commissar for the Red Army in October through December 1918. Hašek's "memorial apartment", a.k.a. the J. Gashek's Literary Memorial Museum (as listed in Russian on the Tatarstan National Museum's list of museums in Tatarstan). The  e-mail address of Hašek's Museum in Bugulma" m1814@mail.museum.ru . Streets were named after Jaroslav Hasek ('Gasek' in the Russian language as in its alphabet there is no letter or the sound 'H') in Kiev, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, and St. Petersburg, to name a few places.

A Russian river ship Jaroslav Hašek