false 87280 14 <div>Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls &#8220;our very best writer today,&#8221; celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.<br></div> 284719 book 1977 Příliš hlučná samota total:845|5:436|4:249|3:119|2:27|1:14| 845 3601 1149 114 5 5 false false Wed Nov 14 11:26:03 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 11:45:19 -0800 2007 "For thirty-five years now I've been in wastepaper, and it's my love story. For thirty-five years I've been compacting wastepaper and books, smearing myself with letters until I've come to look like my encyclopedias-and a good three tons of them I've compac...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 26 10:20:14 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 23:40:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:31:59 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 07:37:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 08:27:18 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 08:10:17 -0700 2007 Too Loud a Solitude.

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