Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, two literary variants of Czech humor
Published on June 27, 2024 at 1:15 p.m. / Modified on June 27, 2024 at 1:16 p.m.
Contemporaries of Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923) and Karel Capek (1890-1938), both cultivated the sense of the absurd and the irony typical of this central Europe that Kundera celebrated. Both died young, before the Second War broke out, aware that their world was going to disappear. They experience this collapse and confront it in very different ways, one with baroque humor, the other with finesse – through words and drawing.
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