Name: Příliš hlučná samota
Rating: 4 (31 reviews)
ISBN: 8020701567

Bohumil Hrabal

Příliš hlučná samota

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.

Too Loud a Solitude

Hrabal’s writing is unbelievable. He transforms the mundane into sheer brilliance, managing to make every repeated scenario feel novel. Often humorous, sometimes sentimental, even shocking. Several passages knocked the air out of me.

It’s been days since I finished this and I am still thinking about it.

Annie Millman

Well. It’s perfect

Hrabal’s writing is unbelievable. He transforms the mundane into sheer brilliance, managing to make every repeated scenario feel novel. Often humorous, sometimes sentimental, even shocking. Several passages knocked the air out of me.

It’s been days since I finished this and I am still thinking about it.

Ray Remnant

This parable of censorship and the modern state centers on Hanta, a trash collector whose habit of salvaging and reading discarded books has brought him both the richness of the classics and the ridicule of his boss

Příliš hlučná samota

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