The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue by O'Brien, Flann
The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue by O'Brien, Flann

The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue

Flann O'Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature....
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The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue by O'Brien, Flann

The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue

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The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue by O'Brien, Flann

The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue

CHF 54.40
Author: Flann O'Brien
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Flann O'Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels-collected here in one volume-are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.

O'Brien's masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century. The novel's narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories. The riotous cast of characters includes figures "stolen" from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their author's control and destroy him.

The narrator of The Third Policeman, who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul (who is named "Joe").

The Poor Mouth, a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture. A na ve young orphan narrates the deadpan farce The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar-tending James Joyce. With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue



Author: Flann O'Brien
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 01/08/2008
Pages: 824
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.59d
ISBN: 9780307267498


Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 02/11/2008 pg. 148
Library Journal 03/01/2008 pg. 130

About the Author
Flann O'Brien is the pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan, an Irish novelist and political commentator who was born in 1911 in County Tyrone and raised in Dublin. He entered the Irish civil service in 1937 and formally retired in 1953. From 1940 until his death, he wrote a political column called "Cruiskeen Lawn" for The Irish Times, under the pseudonym of Myles na Gopaleen; his biting, satiric commentaries made him the conscience of the Irish government. He died in 1966.


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