Too Loud a Solitude

Name: Too Loud a Solitude
Author: Bohumil Hrabal

by Bohumil Hrabal

Existential novella about man's life of crushing waste and unexpected transcendence

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Bohumil Hrabal

Czech author beloved for his exuberant, tragicomic fiction that captures the richness of ordinary Czech life under communism. Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England are masterpieces of humane comedy.

More by Bohumil Hrabal

Closely Watched TrainsComing-of-age novella about railway workers during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
I Served the King of EnglandComic picaresque novel following waiter's survival through fascism and communism
Cutting It ShortTragicomic tale of infidelity and village life in rural Czech countryside
The Little Town Where Time Stood StillStories of ordinary people in Czech provincial life and nostalgic memory