by Bohumil Hrabal · tapa dura · ISBN 9780233987019
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«Too Loud a Solitude» is the novel by Bohumil Hrabal, published by Andre Deutsch in hardback (98 pages, in English).
Set in a basement where old paper is pressed, the story follows Hanta, a worker who rescues books from destruction and accumulates them at home. Hrabal combines humour, absurdity and melancholy to celebrate the value of the written word and the human spirit, with a veiled satire on the totalitarian control of reading and thought.
Translation from Czech to English by Michael Henry Heim. Original work: «Příliš hlučná samota». Edition published in London in 1991.
A brief work of literary fiction for the general public, especially for those seeking political satire and Czech fiction.
Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
