Too loud a solitude

Description

Funny, absurd, sad, ultimately tragic and at the same time affirmational, this story of Hanta is one of the great celebrations of the human spirit and of the transcendent value of art and beauty. (It is also a sly and delightful satire on totalitarian attempts to control what we read, think, and feel.) Hrabal is one of the most delightful and unpredictable writers of all time, and for all that this book takes place in a filthy cellar with the background noises of rats fighting in the sewers, it is an exhilarating and uplifting hymn to the beauty and worth of the human spirit.

Description

"Hanta has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Hanta may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference--the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and Lao-tzu. In this baroque and winsome tale, Hrabal, celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word."--Back cover.

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Other Editions

• Too loud a solitudeHarcourt Brace Jovanovich1990-01-01
• Příliš hlučná samotas.n.]1979-01-01
• Tři teskné groteskys.n.1979-01-01
• Příliš hlučná samotas.n.]1980-01-01
• Příliš hlučná samotaOdeon1989-01-01
• Too loud a solitudeDeutsch1991-01-01