A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, 'The Third Policeman' is unique in the English language.

The Third Policeman

Literature & Fiction

Flann O'Brien

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

The Dalkey Archive

Harper

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Modern Classics At Swim Two Birds (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Uk

Flann O'Brien (1911-1966) est considere, avec Joyce et Beckett, comme l'un des grands Irlandais de la litterature mondiale. Ses romans, du Troisieme policier a L'Archiviste de Dublin, en passant par At-Swim-To-Birds, lui valent l'admiration de Dylan Thomas, John Updike, ou encore Nicholson Baker et Edna O'Brien, parmi d'autres. Mais ce sont ses chroniques, publiees de 1940 a sa mort dans l'Irish Times sous le pseudonyme de Myles na gCopaleen, qui lui valurent celle de ses contemporains. Au fil de ces trente annees de chroniques, Flann O'Brien s'est penche sur toutes les grandes questions qui agitent l'humanite: l'art, la litterature, la mort, mais aussi les usages possibles du ventriloquisme, les raseurs, l'art de passer pour intelligent ou de detamiser la farine. Bourru, bougon, atrabilaire et surtout malpensant, Flann O'Brien denonce avec jubilation les ridicules tant de la bonne societe que du bon peuple d'Irlande . A la fois drole et cruel, O'Brien versus Myles affiche le rejet des conventions de son siecle et revele tout l'art quotidien d'un satiriste hors pair, d'un illusionniste delirant a l'humour aiguise, autrement dit the best of Myles .

Best of Myles Na Gopaleen

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Hart-Davis

Third Policeman

Classics

HarperCollins Distribution Services

The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.

The Poor Mouth

Grafton, Collins

"The Dalkey Archive occupies an intermediate position among the works of Flann O'Brien. The author considered it to be almost a work of science fiction but he show all his powers of comedy as well. Among the 'characters' are St. Augustine, James Joyce, and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. We see here, as well, the published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby in the magnificent Third Policemen.

Grafton Books

The Hard Life

GRAFTON

The Best of Myles Na Gopaleen

London : Grafton

Myles Before Myles is a wonderfully funny selection of writings from the pen of Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen, George Knowall). In this fun-filled extravaganza he is, above all, an entertainer, a `gas man.' Flann O'Brien is a cult hero whose comic genius has been praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and Anthony Burgess. Here is a feast for them all: a book full of the joys of Myles as student, as blatherer, as romancer, as Irishman, as poet. Its reappearance has been well worth waiting for.

Myles Before Myles

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins, Publishers

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