The Good Soldier Schweik

“'Humbly report, sir, I'm an idiot.' Josef Švejk, a Prague dealer in mongrel dogs certified as feeble-minded, is swept into the First World War, and serves the Austrian Empire with such boundless zeal and literal-minded obedience that every order turns to chaos — from the pub where he is arrested on the day of Sarajevo, through asylums, gaols and the service of a drunken chaplain, to the train to the front, where he is taken prisoner by his own army.”