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For thirtyfive years ive been compacting wastepaper and books, smearing myself with letters until ive come to look like my encyclopedias. Prilis hlucna samota is a short novel by czech writer bohumil hrabal. The first edition of the novel was published in 1976, and was written by bohumil hrabal. Download our free nook app escape into a good book things to do at home next. In his afterword to rambling on, vaclav kadlec points out how hrabal had begun to focus on longer fiction by the late 1960s, eventually leading to the triumph of i served the king of england and too loud a solitude. Too loud a solitude is a tender and funny story of hanta a man who has lived in a czech police state for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 98 pages and is available in paperback format. Text and context too loud a solitude 1976 is considered to be the opus magnum. Buy a cheap copy of too loud a solitude book by bohumil hrabal. Hrabals too loud a solitude is about hanta, an eccentric hermit who has spent the last thirtyfive years compacting paper. According to the organisers of a 2009 hrabal exhibition in brno, his biological father was probably bohumil blecha 18931970, a teachers son a year older than marie, who was her friend. Pdf i served the king of england book by bohumil hrabal. Too loud a solitude, bohumil hrabal pon2vr0roj40 idocpub. Hrabal, despite obtaining a degree in law from pragues charles university was forced to work as a manual laborer in the 1950s.
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