Too Loud a Solitude

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• Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude

  I was inspired to revisit Bohumil Hrabal by his appearance in Adam Thirlwell’s Miss Herbert, described there as “a writer of hectic digression” with “a comic refusal to be polite, and to stop talking.” I’ve read two of his books before, the other one ... (read full critics)

  theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  I'm so tempted to type the whole book in the margin notes. It's like every line and every paragraph was but a piece of smooth jazz - while the musician was by all means a prodigy. It was a sorrowful story about how a lone soul stand against a corrupted dictatorship, but it's only part of its beauty ... (continue)

  I'm so tempted to type the whole book in the margin notes. It's like every line and every paragraph was but a piece of smooth jazz - while the musician was by all means a prodigy. It was a sorrowful story about how a lone soul stand against a corrupted dictatorship, but it's only part of its beauty - what made the book so remarkable and captivating was the language and the narration. Hrabal wrote the novel with a distinctive style somewhere between prose and poetry; as reader I was completely blown away.

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• English Books
• Paperback 112 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0349102627
• ISBN-13: 9780349102627
• Publisher: Abacus
• Pub date: May 27, 1993
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 774 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Polskie Książki, Libros en Galego

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