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...STORY of the vagabond was a story of other people's lives as they intersected ours. It was a story of the sadly sweet man we met in the diner just off Route 46, or the educated lifeguard at a pool in London. Or the hippie women, vacantly following in down the street late at night. Or a little French hunchback having fantasies of war against the road of the sea. They all pulled me out of myself for a while and I loved them. They were all little-love affairs suspended in time...
...STORY of my fall will be my vagabond for a while. When I do not know my future, other people's presents are almost imperceptible...
...Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...
After leaving Viet Nam and the Special Forces in 1964, he put in four years with the Central Intelligence Agency, then squandered two more years of vagabond travel in Europe, Russia and the Middle East with his wife Maura. But the war experience kept nagging him. "I had always planned to write a novel," he says, "and Viet Nam was the compelling subject. I had to get it done while my feelings were still strong...
...vejk revisited seems a timely project, especially since it introduces the book's creator, who uncannily resembles his own hero. Jaroslav Hašek's father died of drink in 1896 when the boy was 13. Hasek became a dropout, vagabond, drunk and professed anarchist. He was constantly in trouble and often in jail. Like Švejk, too, he was less political than impudent...