“It was an awful mistake with that girl. Advise me what to do.” On Jaroslav Hašek’s bigamy

Abstract

In this article, Jaroslav Hašek’s bigamy will be discussed from two points of view – the biographical and legal ones. In almost every writer’s biography, the fact of his marrying two women is mentioned, but it is also quickly dismissed with only a few words of explanation. In the author’s opinion, after almost a hundred years following Hašek’s death, the case of his bigamy deserves proper interpretation.

Keywords

• jaroslav hašek
• bigamy
• legal perception of bigamy