Schlemihl

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In einer eMail vom 09.08.00 20:03:36 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
dmaus at email.unc.edu:

<< 
 Assuming you're talking about "The Good Soldier Schweijk" then I have to
 agree with Mark in saying that you're not only wrong about the definition
 of "schlemihl" but you haven't read "Schweijk" recenlty, since he is
 anything but "smart, clever" and is "subversive" only in his ineptness as
 a soldier.
  >>
It's a long time ago that I read it, and perhaps I mixed with several movie 
versions. But I think soldier Schwejik was really "clever" in the context of 
the first World War, and remember, he was a (very) "little man", a 
proletarian with only very few possibilities of resistance.
kwp