num_pages: 102
description: Haňtá 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. Haňtá 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, whom Milan Kundera has called “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word.
language: English
title: Too Loud a Solitude
titlecomplete: Too Loud a Solitude
characters: Haňťa
genres: Fiction, Books About Books, Philosophy, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Novella, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 21667
places: Prague (Praha)
publisher: Harcourt