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“Too Loud a Solitude” by Bohumil Hrabal

4 July 2011 · Reading · Comments { 9 }

The narrator of this book is an idiot. His boss despises him, others laugh at him. He drinks beer all day, and works in a cellar compacting wastepaper. He has been compacting wastepaper in the same cellar with the same hydraulic press for 35 years, and has picked out classics of world literature from the [...]

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“Identity” by Milan Kundera

4 May 2008 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

Warning: this review gives away the ending. There’s something intensely dissatisfying about stories that end “but it was all a dream and then she woke up.” Logically, I suppose there shouldn’t be. We accept that a story is made up, we accept that nothing is true, that it is all in effect a dream being [...]

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