2. Radical Liberalism: Apocryphal Stories by Karel Čapek

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Politics or Poetics: An Introduction 1
5. 1. Tropos Kynikos: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek 25
6. 2. Radical Liberalism: Apocryphal Stories by Karel Čapek 69
7. 3. The Past Perfect Hero: Julius Fučík and Reportage: Written from the Gallows 94
8. 4. The Poetics of a Political Trial: Working People vs. Rudolf Slánský and His Fellow Conspirators 151
9. 5. Ironies of History: The Joke by Milan Kundera 196
10. 6. Cops or Robbers: The Beggar's Opera by Václav Havel 218
11. Index 241