History Trivia / TheGoodSoldierSvejk

* OneBookAuthor: Unfortunately, due to the AuthorExistenceFailure, it's not even a full book. Hašek wrote many short stories, but this is his only novel.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: His unhealthy bohemian lifestyle, the tribulations of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI war]], and the personal problems since his return to Czechoslovakia did little to improve the author's health. Hašek contracted typhoid and tuberculosis in Russia, but while he got the first mostly healed up, once he returned home and got the cold shoulder from most of his former colleagues, his TB worsened, and though his situation later improved, his health did not, and he died January 3rd, 1923, having completed just about the half of the planned novel.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Many characters are based on people whom the author met during his war service - in some cases, he didn't even change their names or changed them only slightly.[[note]]E.g. .Lieutenant Lukáš was based on Hašek's company commander Rudolf Lukas.[[/note]] Volunteer Marek is Hašek's AuthorAvatar and he even tells a story about how he was fired from a natural history magazine after writing articles about imaginary animals, which had happened to Hašek.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in its entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Austro-Hungarian army]] in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include his experiences during the [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].

** Otto Katz was baptized by Alban Schachleiter -- a real person. Shortly after Hašek's death Schachleiter met Hitler and became his staunch supporter. The infamous photo of a Catholic priest giving a nazi salute (often misattributed to Pius XII) is of pater Alban.
** Hašek accused the editor-in-chief of ''Československá republika'', Josef Stanislav Hevera, of writing inappropriately flattering illustrated biography of Franz Josef. Hevera did publish such a book -- but only 7 years later.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The full name of the first edition (serialized, self-published) was ''Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světove i občanské války zde i v Rusku'' -- "Adventures of the good soldier Svejk during World and Civil wars here and in Russia" -- more or less mirroring the authour's biography. The afterword to the first volume "Behind the Lines" promised two more soon: "At the Front" and "In Custody". But so far Svejk haven't reached the battlefield in "At the Front", "The Glorious Licking" or "The Glorious Licking Continues".

** Hašek accused the editor-in-chief of ''Československá republika'', Josef Stanislav Hevera, of writing inappropriately flattering illustrated biography of Frantz-Josef. Hevera did publish such a book -- but only 7 years later.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: His unhealthy bohemian lifestyle, the tribulations of war, and the personal problems since his return to Czechoslovakia did little to improve the author's health. Hašek contracted typhoid and tuberculosis in Russia, but while he got the first mostly healed up, once he returned home and got the cold shoulder from most of his former colleagues, his TB worsened, and though his situation later improved, his health did not, and he died January 3rd, 1923, having completed just about the half of the planned novel.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in its entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include his experiences during the [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in its entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include his experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].

* OneBookAuthor: Unfortunately, due to the AuthorExistenceFailure, it's not even a full book.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: His unhealthy bohemian lifestyle, the tribulations of war, and the personal problems since his return to Czechoslovakia did little to improve the author's health. Hašek contracted typhoid and tuberculosis in Russia, but while he got the first mostly healed up, once he returned home and got the cold shoulder from most of his former colleagues, his TB worsened, and though his situation later improved, his health did not, and he died January 3rd, 1923, having completed less than half of the planned novel.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in its entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include his experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in it's entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include his experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The book in it all entirety is closely based on Hašek's experiences as a conscripted Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Great War, and had he lived to complete it, it would've undoubtedly include his experiences during the [[RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian Civil War]].