Schweik in the Second World War
- Schweik in the Second World War
"Schweik in the Second World War" ("Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg") is a play by German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht. It was written by Brecht in 1943 while in exile in California, and is a sequel to the 1923 novel "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek. It is set in Prague and on the Russian Front during World War II. It is a satirical tale of a common man, Schweyk, who is forced into war and manages to survive. He overcomes dangerous situations in Gestapo Headquarters, a military prison, and a Voluntary Labor Service. The ending finds Schweyk lost in a snowstorm near Stalingrad. He meets an equally lost and bewildered Hitler, whose path is blocked by snow, frozen corpses, the Soviet Army, and the German people. Finally, Hitler does a grotesque dance and disappears into the snow.
Bibliography
* Calabro, Tony, "Bertolt Brecht's Art of Dissemblance", Longwood Academic, 1990
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