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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STAGE PLAYS
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The Good Soldier Schweik by Erwin Piscator
(More about Erwin Piscator
.)
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Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg
(Švejk in the Second World War), by (1941-1943) Bertolt Brecht
Listen
to Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler
's famous song Moldau
from the play.
Two more songs from the same play:
And What did the Nazi Soldier's Wife Get?
(Schweyk, 1959)
Song of the Little Wind
(Schweyk, 1959)
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The
Good Soldier Schweik (1980)
Michael
John Nimchuk (b.1927- d.2003)
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Carl MacDougall
's The Guid Sodjer Schweik
(1993)
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The Financial Times review of the play Švejk
(1999)
by Colin Teevan
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