After his father drank himself to death, he got a job with a chemist, which led to his story collection From an Old Chemist's Shop.  He was fired from a job as editor of the journal The Animal World for writing about animals that didn't exist, while the first of the "strange stories" for which he became famous appeared in Karikatury in 1911.  He actually dictated his most 
After his father drank himself to death, he got a job with a chemist, which led to his story collection From an Old Chemist's Shop.  He was fired from a job as editor of the journal The Animal World for writing about animals that didn't exist, while the first of the "strange stories" for which he became famous appeared in Karikatury in 1911.  He actually dictated his most famous work from his bedroom in Lipnice (lip-nee-chuh), partly based on his time in Russian captivity in World War I.  For 10 points - name this Czech writer who died of tuberculosis before finishing The Good Soldier Schweik.
After his father drank himself to death, he got a job with a chemist, which led to his story collection From an Old Chemist's Shop.  
Jaroslav Hasek (hah-scheck)