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Books Like Too Loud a Solitude
Best books to read after Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
If Hrabal's lyrical meditation on books and their destruction moved you, these picks span Czech literature, the tradition of fiction about the fate of culture under totalitarianism, and the great books-within-books tradition.
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Buy on AmazonClosely Watched Trains
by Bohumil Hrabal
Hrabal's novella of a train dispatcher during the Nazi occupation — the essential companion, comic and suddenly devastating.
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Buy on AmazonI Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal
Dítě's picaresque career in the hotel trade — Hrabal's funniest and most Švejkian novel.
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Buy on AmazonThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
Kundera's Prague Spring novel — the philosophical Czech parallel to Hrabal's lyrical one.
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Buy on AmazonThe Good Soldier Švejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
The founding Czech comic novel — another man who survives by not resisting directly.
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Buy on AmazonFahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
The American book-burning novel — the same premise of literature's destruction in a dystopian register.
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Buy on AmazonThe Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Eco's medieval library mystery — the fate of books, the power of texts, and those who control them.
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Buy on AmazonThe Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books hidden to protect them, a city under dictatorship — the Spanish parallel to Haňt'a's Prague.
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Buy on AmazonThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera
Kundera's most experimental Czech novel — the same Communist erasure of memory that Hrabal documents through Haňt'a's baler.
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