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    At Swim-two-birds

    Flann O'Brien

    The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means…

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    The Third Policeman Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    Flann O'Brien

    A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ - Flann O'Brien.

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    Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien

    Flann O'Brien

    A welcome gift for every Flann O Brien fan, this collection at last assembles his short fiction including a final, incomplete novel, and other never-before-published pieces into a single volume.

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    The Third Policeman

    Flann O'Brien

    The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.

    Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal…

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    Flann O'Brien

    Dr Joe Brooker

    This new study assesses the whole span of O'Brien’s achievement, including his early forays into public satire and his fabrication of authorial identities.

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    Flann O'Brien

    Dr Joe Brooker

    Flann O'Brien was the best known pen name of Brian O'Nolan one of modern Ireland’s most perplexing, subversive and underrated writers. This new study assesses the whole span of O'Noaln’s…

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    Flann O'Brien & Modernism

    Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood ‘second generation’ modernist. Rather than construe him as a…

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    Flann O'Brien & Modernism

    Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood ‘second generation’ modernist. Rather than construe him as a…

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    Assembling Flann O'Brien

    Dr Maebh Long

    A complete guide to the writings of Flann O'Brien, including his major novels, plays and journalism –

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    Assembling Flann O'Brien

    Dr Maebh Long

    A complete guide to the writings of Flann O'Brien, including his major novels, plays and journalism –

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    At Swim-Two-Birds

    Flann O'Brien

    The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means…

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    Flann O'Brien the Complete Novels

    Flann O'Brien

    Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of ‘diluting’ water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak…

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    Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies

    Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies breaks new ground in O'Brien scholarship by testing a number of popular commonplaces about this…

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    Flann O'Brien: Problems With Authority

    Flann O'Brien’s writing displays a knack for comic doubling and self-contradiction. Focusing on the satirical energies and anti-authoritarian temperament invested in his style, this book interrogates the author’s clowning with…

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    Flann O'Brien: Gallows humour

    The book draws on unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien’s art. Focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death…

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    The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien

    Flann O'Brien

    An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O'Brien at…

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    At Swim-Two-Birds

    Flann O'Brien

    A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle…

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    Further Cuttings

    Flann O'Brien

    This is a companion volume to The Best of Myles and The Hair of the Dogma . It covers the Myles na Gopaleen columns for the Irish Times written between…

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    Dalkey Archive

    Flann O'Brien

    Wit, humor, satire, the exact fall of a Dublin syllable, the ear for the local turn, the flight of fancy that can spin into a Dublin joke or a Limerick…

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    Rhapsody In Stephens Green: And The Insect Play

    Flann O'Brien

    Using a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann O'Brien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking- territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule…

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    The Best of Myles

    Flann O'Brien

    The best comic writer I can think of. S.J. Perelman

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    Best of Myles

    Flann O'Brien

    Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O’ Brien wrote a daily column in the ‘Irish Times’ called ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’ for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and…

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    The Dalkey Archive

    Flann O'Brien

    From the author of the classic novel ‘At-Swim-Two-Birds’ comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determined to destroy the world.

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    Hard Life

    Flann O'Brien

    Flann O'Brien’s comic writings were much praised by contemporaries like James Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene. This is the tale of two orphans, Manus and Finbarr, growing up in…

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    Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire

    M. Keith Booker

    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…

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    The Poor Mouth

    Flann O'Brien

    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…

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    No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

    Anthony Cronin

    With a foreword by acclaimed author Kevin Barry and striking redesign, No Laughing Matter is an undisputed classic of Irish literary biography.

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    The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien: Introduction by Keith Donohue

    Flann O'Brien

    Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of ‘diluting’ water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak…

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    Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist

    Keith Hopper

    This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O'Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern.

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    Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn: Flann O'Brien’s Philosophy of Language

    Flore Coulouma

    With Flann O'Brien now widely acknowledged as a subversive genius of early post-modernism, Flore Coulouma gives the question of language a central position in his literary identity. Tracing O'Brien’s philosophy…

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    The Third Policeman

    Flann O'Brien

    A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of “At Swim-Two-Birds’ - Flann O'Brien.

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    The Third Policeman Lib/E

    Flann O'Brien

    Flann O'Brien’s most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased after the…

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    The Third Policeman

    Flann O'Brien

    A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of “At Swim-Two-Birds’ - Flann O'Brien.

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    Third Policeman

    Flann O'Brien

    With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien’s fiction back in print.

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    Reading Games: An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett & Georges Perec

    Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja

    Providing insightful analysis of the game and play theories and drawing from a wide range of ideas, from the thinking of the great philosophers to basic chess and poker strategies…

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    At Swim-Two-Birds de Flann O'Brien e a tradicao literaria irlandesa

    Hejmanowski Pawel,Bastos (Trad) Heitor

    Este estudo tem como objeto de analise o romance At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) do escritor irlandes Flann O'Brien (1911-1966). O romance pode ser visto, na perspectiva de hoje, como uma das…

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    At War

    Flann O'Brien

    A feast of a book. The Independent

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    Collected Plays and Teleplays

    Flann O'Brien

    Rarely reprinted, rarely staged, and often entirely unpublished, Flann O'Brien’s works for the stage and television are speculative, inventive, and as wickedly funny as his novels.

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    Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life

    Flann O'Brien

    O'Brien was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century … The Poor Mouth is wildly funny and Steadman’s drawings catch the spirit. Boston Globe

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    Das Verschwinden der Wirklichkeit: Ueber Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der Kreativitaet in Flann O'Briens At Swim-Two-Birds und The Third Policeman

    Ralf Zimmermann

    Diese Arbeit untersucht die Facetten der Kreativitat in Flann O'Briens Romanen At Swim-Two-Birds und The Third Policeman.
    Kreative Konstituierungsmoeglichkeiten der literarischen Imagination erlauben es, Erfahrungsraume ausserhalb der Alltaglichkeit zu schaffen…

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