Dalkey Archive - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Flann O'BrienSeries:Irish LiteraturePublish date:1993-02-01Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564781727ISBN-10:1564781720UPC:9781564781727Book Category:FictionSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.65Product ID:SC8KJJB5SK
Hailed as the best comic fantasy since Tristram Shandy upon its publication in 1964, The Dalkey Archive, is Flann O'Brien's fifth and final novel; or rather (as O'Brien wrote to his editor), The book is not meant to be a novel or anything of the kind but a study in derision, various writers with their styles, and sundry modes, attitudes and cults being the rats in the cage. Among the targets of O'Brien's derision are religiosity, intellectual abstractions, J. W. Dunne's and Albert Einstein's views on time and relativity, and the lives and works of Saint Augustine and James Joyce, both of whom have speaking parts in the novel. Bewildering? Yes, but as O'Brien insists, a measure of bewilderment is part of the job of literature.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564781727ISBN-10:1564781720UPC:9781564781727Book Category:FictionSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.65Product ID:SC8KJJB5SK
O'Brien, Flann: - Flann O'Brien, whose real name was Brian O'Nolan, also wrote under the pen name of Myles na Gopaleen. He was born in 1911 in County Tyrone. A resident of Dublin, he graduated from University College after a brilliant career as a student (editing a magazine called Blather) and joined the Civil Service, in which he eventually attained a senior position. He wrote throughout his life, which ended in Dublin on April 1, 1966. His other novels include The Dalkey Archive, The Third Policeman, The Hard Life, and The Poor Mouth, all available from Dalkey Archive Press. Also available are three volumes of his newspaper columns: The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn, and At War.
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