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224 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
One night in May, Hašek came home bone-tired, but he still had enough perseverance and will that he wrote down in a few words a creative idea that later occupied him relentlessly. He had barely opened his eyes in the morning when he began to look for the small sheet of paper on which he had, as he asserted, written his original idea, but which he had forgotten by the morning. In the meantime, I had thrown the paper away into the garbage. Hašek stormed through it, and was blissfully happy when he found the crumpled piece of paper. He carefully pried it open, read through it, scrunched it together again and threw it away. I picked it up again and kept it. The octavo sheet has the clearly legible and underlined title of the story: "The Company Idiot". Below that is a sentence from which one can read "He puts himself to the test to see if he can perform properly as a soldier..." This is followed by several confusing words. - translated from pg. 7 of Geniaalne idioot / Huumori kool