
Novel • Czech literature
Loud Loneliness (1976), a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, is an introspective monologue by Hant'a, an old worker at a paper collection center in Prague, who has been pressing waste paper and books into packages with a hydraulic press for 35 years, calling it his
Old Hant'a, the narrator and main character, has been working at a printing press in a waste paper collection center for 35 years. Thanks to his profession, he has been educated against his will because he saves valuable books from piles of waste paper that are destined for liquidation. In his apartment, he has piled up books containing the profound thoughts of philosophers and poets, passionat...
Hena Com, 2004.Paperback.