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- 9780307267498
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307267490
ISBN-13
9780307267498
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60682647
Product Key Features
Book Title
Complete Novels of Flann O'brien : Introduction by Keith Donohue
Number of Pages
824 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Psychological, Classics, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
29.7 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A real writer, with the true comic spirit." -James Joyce "Unquestionably a major author . . . Flann O'Brien assault[s] your brain with words, style, magic, madness, and unlimited invention." -Anthony Burgess "O'Brien was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century." -BOSTON GLOBE " At Swim-Two-Birds has remained in my mind ever since it first appeared as one of the best books of our century. A book in a thousand . . . in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy. " -Graham Greene " At Swim-Two-Birds is both a comedy and fantasy of such staggering originality that it baffles description and very nearly beggars our sense of delight." -CHICAGO TRIBUNE "[ The Third Policeman is] the funniest book ever written . . . and scariest." -Charles Baxter, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO " The Poor Mouth shows a comic genius working close to his best capability. Humor of this quality, this intensity, is very rare; as witty in its language as in its invention, it cries to be read aloud." -NEWSWEEK, "A real writer, with the true comic spirit." -James Joyce "Unquestionably a major author . . . Flann O'Brien assault[s] your brain with words, style, magic, madness, and unlimited invention." -Anthony Burgess "O'Brien was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century." -BOSTON GLOBE "At Swim-Two-Birdshas remained in my mind ever since it first appeared as one of the best books of our century. A book in a thousand . . . in the line ofUlyssesandTristram Shandy." -Graham Greene "At Swim-Two-Birdsis both a comedy and fantasy of such staggering originality that it baffles description and very nearly beggars our sense of delight." -CHICAGO TRIBUNE "[The Third Policemanis] the funniest book ever written . . . and scariest." -Charles Baxter, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO "The Poor Mouthshows a comic genius working close to his best capability. Humor of this quality, this intensity, is very rare; as witty in its language as in its invention, it cries to be read aloud." -NEWSWEEK
Dewey Decimal
823.912
Synopsis
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, 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 naïve 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
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