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The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
The birth, childhood, upbringing and warlike exploits of the giant Gargantua: a satire on scholasticism, wars, monasticism and society, with grotesque humour, enormous eating/drinking and utopian ideals.
The work depicts the process of creating a literary hero and mocks bureaucracy, superficiality, and the artificial creation of "ideal" stories according to predetermined rules.
The collection "Humoreske" presents a vivid, humorous and critical cross-section of Hašek's short prose.
At the end of 1935, the famous Russian writing duo set off on a car trip across the United States, where they spent a total of three and a half months.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).