A very noisy isolation

Bohumil Hrabal published this novel himself in 1976, and it was not officially published until 1989 due to the police state censorship at the time. "A Very Loud Solitude" tells the story of an foolish old man working in paper destruction in Prague; he preserves and collects large numbers of manuscripts and rare and forbidden books through his work. It is the story of a knowledge collector obsessed who overcomes the police state that wanted to triumph over knowledge... Milan Kundera says about him: "Our best writer today." Also: "One book by Bohumil Hrabal summarizes everything we all failed to present for a liberated human being, despite all our hints and loud protests." Regarding the book, The New York Times writes: "Hrabal is a cry against the end of humanity, and his book 'A Very Loud Solitude' is a salvation from the deadly indifference that effectively kills the letter more than the most complex destruction machines." As we also read in The Guardian: "Bohumil Hrabal's stories about ordinary people sparked a cinematic revolution in his homeland, and the pub he used to frequent in Prague became a shrine for prominent figures. Hrabal proved that he is a legend of his time."