Haek: Osudy dobrho vojka vejka – 2 CDmp3

This Czech audiobook presents Jaroslav Haeks unfinished story of the good soldier vejk in four parts: In the Rear, At the Front, The Glorious Beating, and the unfinished continuation. It follows vejks involvement in the First World War, his encounters with the police, medical examiners and military authorities, his service with the field chaplain and Lieutenant Luk, and his journey through Hungary to the Galician front. The recording also includes the epilogue, Za csae pna a jeho rodinu, together with radio adaptations from 1936 and 1946, featuring vejk in civilian life, at the draft examination, in Russian captivity, on his happy return and in the pub U Kalicha, as well as the story of Locomotive No. 4268.