Question
Josef Lada made over six hundred illustrations for stories about this character. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “good” character, who steals a dog from a colonel after being told to find a dog for a lieutenant. This character is almost executed by General Fink von Finkenstein.
ANSWER: The Good Soldier Švejk (“sh’VAKE”) [or Švejka or Schweik or Shveyk or Schwejk; accept Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války]
[10e] Jaroslav Hašek’s (“YAH-roh-slav HAH-shek’s”) novel The Good Soldier Švejk was written in this non-French language, as was Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
ANSWER: Czech [or čeština; prompt on Bohemian]
[10m] After Hašek’s death, this author wrote a play in which Švejk meets Hitler. This author wrote the libretto for Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and outlined the distancing effect in his theory of epic theater.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]
<Michael Bentley, Literature - European - Other> ~23055~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 18.33 | 89% | 72% | 22% |