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“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
—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
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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 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
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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One of the Best Irish Writers
19. Februar 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
On the dust jacket for The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien, the author is lumped in with Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, perhaps the two most famous figures in Irish literature. It's lofty company to be sure, but for most Beckett and especially Joyce are tough mountains to climb. I will readily admit that a lot of what is going with the works of Beckett and Joyce go over my head. I needed a guide to really get Ulysses, and Beckett's works are almost as tough. O'Brien's work is much more palpable though. I enjoy some of the works inspired by Joyce much more than Joyce, and O'Brien falls in to that category.
If you're thinking of purchasing this, your probably already familiar with the contents to some degree, so I won't go in to to much detail concerning the characteristics of each novel. The first two novels in the collection, At Swims Two Birds and the Third Policeman are the strongest of the bunch. Both can be seen as a kind of proto-postmodernism and both are among the best examples of meta-fiction I have read. They are also both really funny and bizarre, and the second one is very dark and chilling as well. The other three novels are all good, but they are generally more pessimistic and less fun to read.
The Everyman's Library edition is fairly affordable and a nice purchase if you're a fan of his work. If you're a fan of Irish Literature then this is also a must read. O'Brien is a very good and very funny writer. He deserves the lofty company the blurb on the dust jacket ascribed to him.
If you're thinking of purchasing this, your probably already familiar with the contents to some degree, so I won't go in to to much detail concerning the characteristics of each novel. The first two novels in the collection, At Swims Two Birds and the Third Policeman are the strongest of the bunch. Both can be seen as a kind of proto-postmodernism and both are among the best examples of meta-fiction I have read. They are also both really funny and bizarre, and the second one is very dark and chilling as well. The other three novels are all good, but they are generally more pessimistic and less fun to read.
The Everyman's Library edition is fairly affordable and a nice purchase if you're a fan of his work. If you're a fan of Irish Literature then this is also a must read. O'Brien is a very good and very funny writer. He deserves the lofty company the blurb on the dust jacket ascribed to him.
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Classic writer
6. April 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
All novels by Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien and a variety of other pennames) included in one volume. That's enough to make this a valuable book. Flann O'Brien is one of Ireland's foremost writers, ranking easily with the likes of Joyce and Beckett: his two recognized masterpieces, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, still unmatched as far as wittiness and comic spirit are concerned, are two of the best modernist novels in English literature; the other novels included here (The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Dalkey Archive) are not as funny or groundbreaking, but definitely worth reading. Too bad The Poor Mouth (probably) loses some in translation (the original was in Gaelic).
The good thing about this edition is certainly it's bargain price (costs less than buying just two of the novels in separate volumes) and Keith Donohue's introduction. Overall, a great buy and definitely a good read!
The good thing about this edition is certainly it's bargain price (costs less than buying just two of the novels in separate volumes) and Keith Donohue's introduction. Overall, a great buy and definitely a good read!
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Forgotten gems
4. Juni 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
My favorite reading experiences often occur when a friend with a good (if twisted or dry) sense of humor introduces me to an author I've never heard of. The same friend who introduced me to the comic genius of Peter DeVries recently emailed me his opinion of The Third Policeman. I quickly devoured that book laughing the whole way through, and then I borrowed At Swim Two Birds from my local library. Circumstances prevented me from starting it until right before it was due, and (DRAT!) someone had placed a hold on it. So I ordered this collection.
Two days later, I was happily savoring every page of what may be the most complete comic novel I've ever read. It helps that I seem to have been born with the same desire to poke at anything and everything including structure itself that O'Brien (or O'Nolan) was. What he does is pure genius and can be compared to someone building a house of cards defying previously defined laws of physics and structure in hopes of imploding the whole thing. When it doesn't, he finishes the novel with the ultimate and abrupt comic anti-climax.
I have since moved on to reading A Pour Mouth, originally written in Irish. Even though, I'm certain much of the humor is directed at those who've read (and been bored by) the other Irish literature parodied by this work, I have found this one to be funny as well.
I have been so moved to tears (of laughter and otherwise) by these novels, that I have played them forward to another friend by ordering him a copy as well.
If you like A Confederacy of Dunces, Monty Python, and the like, you will find elements of At Swim Two Birds which have been copied and have influenced these works.
Two days later, I was happily savoring every page of what may be the most complete comic novel I've ever read. It helps that I seem to have been born with the same desire to poke at anything and everything including structure itself that O'Brien (or O'Nolan) was. What he does is pure genius and can be compared to someone building a house of cards defying previously defined laws of physics and structure in hopes of imploding the whole thing. When it doesn't, he finishes the novel with the ultimate and abrupt comic anti-climax.
I have since moved on to reading A Pour Mouth, originally written in Irish. Even though, I'm certain much of the humor is directed at those who've read (and been bored by) the other Irish literature parodied by this work, I have found this one to be funny as well.
I have been so moved to tears (of laughter and otherwise) by these novels, that I have played them forward to another friend by ordering him a copy as well.
If you like A Confederacy of Dunces, Monty Python, and the like, you will find elements of At Swim Two Birds which have been copied and have influenced these works.
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