Originally submitted and rejected for publication in 1940, this brilliant absurdist novel by Brian O'Nolan (writing as Flann O'Brien) was not published until 1967, a year after the author's death. Parts of it appeared in his 1964 novel, THE DALKEY ARCHIVE. The nameless, one-legged narrator and another man, John Divney, plot to kill their neighbor ...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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 ...
Flann O'Brien's brilliantly inventive and witty novel satires many things, including Irish literature and folklore, the nature of narrative, and Modernism itself--of which his novel is, incidentally, a fine example. This comic masterpiece features a young, confused student narrator who lives with his uncle in Dublin and is writing a novel whose ...
Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its "characters" St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby.
-- Paperback original. -- First U.S. edition. British publication by Hart-Davis, McGibbon Ltd ('76). -- A companion to The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings culls more scathing selections from "Cruiskeen Lawn", Flann O'Brien's column in the Irish Times written under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. -- This volume covers the years 1947-1957 and finds ...
The Irish satirist Brian O'Nolan (1911-66) was known as Flann O'Brien when he wrote his hilarious novels (most famously, AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS) and Myles na Gopaleen when he wrote his newspaper columns for the Irish Times. Here is a chronological selection of the latter, written during World War II. His topics range from the serious to the nutty, and ...
O'Brien's comic novel satirizes the "plain folk" of Ireland in the story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, brought up on potatoes and mutton in a cabin in the west of Ireland.
A collection of the best pieces from the first five years of Flann O'Brien's "Cruiskeen Lawn" column, the column he wrote for "The Irish Times" from 1940-66 under the name of Myles na Gopaleen.
"Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?" - Edna O'Brien The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the "Irish Times," He called them "studies in literary pathology" -- monstrously tall tales that explore the ...
O'Brien's comic novel satirizes the "plain folk" of Ireland in the story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, brought up on potatoes and mutton in a cabin in the west of Ireland.
In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer, we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of "At Swim-Two-Birds" to the piercing realism of "The Hard Life" and the surreal logic of "The Third Policeman". This is a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' ...
Flann O'Brien, one of the masters of Irish comic fiction, sets this farcical novel in turn-of-the-century Dublin--the same milieu in which Joyce DUBLINERS takes place. Finbarr and his older brother are orphans raised by the alcoholic Mr. Collopy who, after he scandalizes the Pope on a trip to Rome, meets a bizarre end.
This is a collection of writings from the Irish satirist Flann O'Brien, edited from more than 3000 columns which appeared daily in the "Irish Times" under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen. Where previous collections are mere compilations, this collection of wartime columns treats the famous Irishman Myles na gCopaleen and his hectoring associates ...
From the author of "The Poor Mouth" and "The Third Policeman", comes this novel about how two orphaned boys come to live in the household of the disputatious Mr. Collopy. While he is engaged in humanitarian work on behalf of women, the boys grow up in the odour of good whiskey and bad cooking.
In writing his column "Bones of Contention" for "The Nationalist and Leinster Times", the author takes on the character of George Knowall, the country cousin of Myles of Dublin. This book contains a variety of pieces from this column, and is by the same author as "The Third Policeman".
This is a companion volume to "The Best of Myles" and "Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn", and covers the Myles na Gopaleen columns for the "Irish Times", written between 1947 and 1957. It casts a humorous eye over subjects such as a Dublin man's relationship with his wife and his pint.
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