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Flann OBrien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novelscollected here in one volumeare a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius. OBriens masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds , is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century. The novels 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 authors 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 nave young orphan narrates
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- Author
- Flann O'Brien with an introduction by Keith Donohue
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library; Alfred A. Knopf
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307267498
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.51 / 5 (224 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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