A biography of the great comic Irish novelist, Flann O'Brien, a highly successful journalist who wrote a column for the Irish Times, as well as one of Ireland's most celebrated novelists. His masterpiece, AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS, was the last book James Joyce read before he died; he praised it, as did Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene. The author of this ...
This volume of memoirs traces the early years of the O'Nolan family as they grew up in Strabane, Glasgow, Inchicore, Tullamore and finally Dublin. Spanning the early part of the century and in to the 1930s, the text provides glimpses of an era of immense social and political change.
The first essay presents an entertaining overview of the life of O'Brien, exploring how conditions in Ireland influenced his writing; the second distills the essence of Shavian humor, explaining how the playwright employs laughter with such devastating effectiveness to a variety of ends.
This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of "carnivalisation" to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasises the political and social implications of the writings, arguing that O'Brien maintained a reflexive focus on language throughout his career.
Flann O'Brien's "The Third Policeman", completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being 'too fantastic', and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O'Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, "At Swim Two Birds" (1939). By 1940 O'Brien was ...
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