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Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist
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ISBN10: 1859184871
ISBN13: 9781859184875
Publisher: Cork Univ Pr
Published: Nov 30 2011
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781859184875
Publisher: Cork Univ Pr
Published: Nov 30 2011
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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).
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. It identifies The Third Policeman as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest - and most exciting - examples of post-modernist fiction.
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. It identifies The Third Policeman as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest - and most exciting - examples of post-modernist fiction.
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