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| two in one flann o brien: The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien, 1974 With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print. |
| two in one flann o brien: The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht) , 1975 |
| two in one flann o brien: The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien, 2019-11-12 One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel by “a spectacularly gifted comic writer” (Newsweek). The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)—and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robbery—and murder. From here, this remarkably imaginative dark comedy proceeds into a world of riddles, contradictions, and questions about the nature of eternity as our narrator meets some policemen with an obsession of their own (specifically, bicycles), and engages in an extended conversation with his dead victim—and his own soul, which he nicknames Joe. By the celebrated Irish author praised by James Joyce as “a real writer, with the true comic spirit,” The Third Policeman is an incomparable work of fiction. “’Tis the odd joke of modern Irish literature—of the three novelists in its holy trinity, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien, the easiest and most accessible of the lot is O’Brien. . . . Flann O’Brien was too much his own man, Ireland’s man, to speak in any but his own tongue.” —The Washington Post |
| two in one flann o brien: At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill, 2002 Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916. |
| two in one flann o brien: The Hard Life Flann O'Brien, 2024-11-19 A “wild, hilarious, fast moving, irreverent and comic” novel of growing up in turn-of-the-century Dublin from the acclaimed Irish author (New York Herald Tribune). When Finbarr’s mother dies, he and his older brother Manus are sent to their half-uncle’s house in Dublin. There, he is introduced to school—and the leather strap—at a benevolent Christian Brothers establishment. Evenings are spent listening to his uncle’s whisky-fueled discussions with a Jesuit priest, arguing the finer points of Roman Catholic theology and local politics. Finbarr follows Manus’s enterprising exploits—which include foregoing formal education to concoct money-making cons that prey on the gullible. As his uncle embarks on an ill-fated pilgrimage to Rome (where he is told to go to hell by the Holy Father himself), it remains to be seen if the life lessons Finbarr has absorbed set him on a path to righteousness and gainful employment . . . “A comic Irish novel that derives its effect from an absolutely deadpan approach, for the narrator is a small boy who, for the better part of the time, has only the foggiest notion of what he is describing. Young Finbarr commands a glorious version of the English language combined with a totally impartial view of adult actions. The two things produce remarkable results.” —The Atlantic “The conversation is a delight . . . and the atmosphere of a lower-middle-class family, with its cheerless, shabby, restricted way of life, is well done.” —Library Journal |
| two in one flann o brien: The Best of Myles Flann O'Brien, 2024-11-19 The “brilliant, morosely inventive comic turns devoted to . . . the literary life, the Gaelic Revival, civil service bureaucracy, booze and its discontents.” —The Observer For more than twenty years, famous Irish novelist Flann O’Brien wrote columns for the Irish Times under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen. This collection compiles his work from the first five years of his journalistic career and brings together themes that shaped O’Brien’s successful novels, including At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth, and The Hard Life. In these pages, you’ll find trenchant and entertaining writing on the Irish Writers, Actors, Artists and Musicians Association; World War II; John Keats; Irish culture and identity; brothers; landladies; railway service; decaying infrastructure; alcoholic ice cream advocacy; and a myriad of other subjects that—as a whole—give a valuable and authentic portrait of twentieth-century Irish life. “This is humorous, satirical, learned, grave-faced, crazy writing. . . . Myles was feared as were some of the ancient Gaelic poets, who it was said could kill with a satire. There was no malice in him, but he could set the town laughing, and a pity for you if the laughter was at your expense.” —The New York Times “It is good to have these fugitive pieces restrained within the covers of a book. Myles was a genial man, a wag, a humorist. . . . Read one by one, his fragments were very funny, but here is a particular pleasure in the continuity of feeling and idiom provided by a book.” —The Times Literary Supplement |
| two in one flann o brien: The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien, 2018 An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, The collected letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O'Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented works to the reading public under a variety of pseudonyms. Spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O'Nolan, or O'Brien, or Myles na gCopaleen, or whatever his name may be, at his most cantankerous and unrestrained. -- Publisher description. |
| two in one flann o brien: The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman Flann O'Brien, 2005-03 First appearing as columns in The Irish Times, the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman (based on the Romantic poet and the translator of Homer, respectively) that comprise this volume illuminate the extraordinary talent of Flann O'Brien. Labeled by the author studies in literary pathology the vignettes - each concluding in a terrible, bathetic pun - are the work of an extraordinarily funny mind exploring the limits of the shaggy dog story. -- Book jacket. |
| two in one flann o brien: Flann O'Brien Paul Fagan, 2020-10-23 The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. The organising theme of Gallows humour focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author's canon. These innovative analyses explore the place of biopolitics in O'Brien's modernist experimentation and popular writing through reflections on his handling of the thematics of violence, justice, capital punishment, eugenics, prosthetics, skin, prostitution, syphilis, rape, reproduction, illness, auto-immune deficiency, abjection, drinking, Gaelic games and masculinist nationalism across a diverse range of genres, intertexts, contexts. |
| two in one flann o brien: The Hard Life Flann O'Brien, 1994 A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England. |
| two in one flann o brien: Assembling Flann O'Brien Maebh Long, 2014-01-02 Flann O'Brien - also known as Brian O'Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland's modern authors. Assembling Flann O'Brien explores the author's innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century's most important theorists, including Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan and Žižek. Assembling Flann O'Brien offers a detailed study of O'Brien's five major novels – including At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman – as well as his plays, short stories, journalistic output and unpublished archival material. The book presents new theoretical perspectives on his works, exploring his compelling engagements with questions of the proper name, the archive, law, and desire, and the problems of identity, language, sexuality and censorship which acutely troubled Ireland's new state. Combining a wide range of contemporary theory with a sensitivity to the cultural and political context in which the author wrote, Maebh Long opens up entirely new aspects of Flann O'Brien's writings, and explores the ingenious and the problematic within his oeuvre. |
| two in one flann o brien: No Laughing Matter Anthony Cronin, 2019 Flann O'Brien's writing career was launched in 1939 with his brilliant first novel AT SWIM TWO BIRDS--a cult classic praised by James Joyce--quickly followed by other influential novels. But O'Brien lived a dark and tragic life, his writing obscured by various pseudonyms. Here Anthony Cronin, a member of O'Brien's intimate circle, offers a remarkable and fascinating portrait of the writer. photos. |
| two in one flann o brien: Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien, 2013-08-15 Presents a collection of short stories and part of an unfinished novel by the Irish writer. 5 of the stories have been translated from Irish. |
| two in one flann o brien: Flann O'Brien & Modernism Julian Murphet, Ronan McDonald, Sascha Morrell, 2014-07-31 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 postmodernist, it correctly locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends. The distinct themes and concerns tracked in Flann O'Brien & Modernism include characterization in branching narrative forms; the ethics and paradoxes of naming; parody and homage; lies and deception; theatricality; sexuality; technology and transport; and the inevitable matter of drink and intoxication. Taken together, these specific topics construct a mosaic image of O'Brien as an exemplary modernist auteur, abreast of all the most salient philosophical and technical concerns affecting literary production in the period immediately before and after World War Two. |
| two in one flann o brien: The Crock of Gold James Stephens, 1913 |
| two in one flann o brien: Stories and Plays Flann O'Brien, 1991 |
| two in one flann o brien: Flann O'Brien Keith Hopper, 2011 Flann OBriens The Third Policeman, completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being too fantastic, and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then OBrien 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 OBrien was confronted with two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeatss Celtic Twilight and the problematic complexities of Joyces modernism. With The Third Policeman, OBrien forges a powerful synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he chooses marks the historical transition from modernism to post-modernism. This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures OBrien 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 |
| two in one flann o brien: Further Cuttings Flann O'Brien, 2000 When The Best of Myles was published in 1968, it was hailed (by S. J. Perelman among others) as one of the supreme comic achievements of the English language. Now, in response to the clamorous demands of men of science and the arts, men of steam, of straw and of the law, comes Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn. Flann O'Brien adopted the name Myles na Gopaleen for the hilarious Cruiskeen Lawn column which he wrote for The Irish Times from 1940-1966. Whereas The Best of Myles covered the first five years of the column's life, this companion edition covers the period from 1947-1957. Here can be found the true transcripts of Myles's clashes with the law courts on charges of larceny, currency offenses, marrying without the consent of his parents, gang warfare, and using bad language; here too are bizarre obituaries, bores, banalities, jovialities and immoralities, and the return of the preposterous Brother. Also included is the first-ever Myles article. |
| two in one flann o brien: Ireland Picturesque and Romantic Leitch Ritchie, 1837 |
| two in one flann o brien: The House Of Splendid Isolation Edna O'Brien, 2013-12-19 'A powerful, complex fable, mysteriously conceived and deeply felt . . . Brilliant' Irish Times When Josie, confined to bed in her dilapidated country mansion, sees the door swing back and the hooded face appear, she knows who it is. Into her world comes McGreevy, bloody crusader for a united Ireland, who has chosen her house for sanctuary. Within the incarcerating walls of the house, an undercurrent of love develops between two people who think differently but feel the same. Destiny has flung them together and, as the police net closes in, fear dawns in Josie that McGreevy has used her house for more than refuge. And there may be no escape for either of them. 'A writer at the height of her powers' Tatler 'A work of insight, sympathy and breath-holding suspense' Daily Mail 'O'Brien at her shrewd and lyrical best' Sunday Times 'So well written you won't be disappointed whatever you are looking for' Literary Review 'A sharp and thoughtful depiction of the modern Irish question . . . poetically written' The Times |
| two in one flann o brien: Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity Thomas Jackson Rice, 1997 Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses presages the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality. |
| two in one flann o brien: Ounce Dice Trice Alastair Reid, 2009-09-08 What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn’s glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz. |
| two in one flann o brien: Ghost Drum Susan Price, 2024-01-02 In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman. The Czar of this cold realm fears his newborn son, Safa, will out do him, and so imprisons the baby at the top of a tall tower, to live and die there without ever glimpsing the real world. Loneliness and confinement drive him to rage and despair until Chingis hears the crying of his trapped spirit and frees him. But now their enemies unite against them, with steel and deadly magic. Chingis and Safa's fight for freedom will take them even through the Ghost World into the Land of the Dead. A timeless and atmospheric tale of fierce magic. |
| two in one flann o brien: The Sterkarm Handshake Susan Price, 2016-07-26 A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this brilliantly imagined time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company's representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild. But the Sterkarms' welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the future--and soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping Elves begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love. A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called enthralling by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Price's Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called dazzling, exciting, memorable, thought provoking, and a thumping good page-turner. |
| two in one flann o brien: All About H. Hatterr G V Desani, 2007-11-06 Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of “Living.” Each teacher delivers himself of a great “Generality,” each great Generality launches a new great “Adventure,” from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, “it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.” |
| two in one flann o brien: Flann O'Brien Werner Huber, Paul Fagan, Ruben Borg, 2014 Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies breaks new ground in Brian O'Nolan scholarship (he wrote his novels under the name of Flann O'Brien) by testing a number of popular commonplaces about this Irish (post-) Modernist author. Challenging the narrative that Flann O'Brien wrote two good novels and then retired to the inferior medium of journalism (as Myles na gCopaleen), the collection engages with overlooked shorter, theatrical, and non-fiction works and columns ('John Duffy's Brother', 'The Martyr's Crown', 'Two in One') alongside At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, and An B�al Bocht. The depth and consistency of O'Nolan's comic inspiration that emerges from this scholarly engagement with his broader body of work underlines both the imperative and opportunity of reassessing O'Brien's literary legacy. Challenging the critical standard of O'Brien as a provincial writer, these essays reveal his writing as a space that uniquely complicates the old lines between stay-at-home conservatism and international experimentalism. Renegotiating O'Brien's place in the European Avant-Garde alongside tensions closer to home - Republicanism, the Gaelic tradition, the Dublin literary scene - the collection reveals as outdated prejudice the dismissal of his talent as a matter of localized interest. Finally, the contributors excavate O'Nolan's oeuvre as fertile territory for a broad range of critical perspectives by confronting some of the more complex ideological positions tested in his writing. Employing perspectives from genetic criticism and cultural materialism to post-modernism and deconstruction, the essays gathered in this volume address with new critical rigor the author's gender politics, his language politics, his parodies of nationalism, his ideology of science, and his treatment of the theme of justice. |
| two in one flann o brien: Cannibal Joyce Thomas Jackson Rice, 2008 Uses the concept of cannibalism to describe Joyce's incorporation of various literary and cultural allusions, both high and popular. This title looks at Berlitz's approach to teaching language that leads to an examination of Joyce's aesthetic of disjunction in language. It gives a perspective on Joyce's politics. |
| two in one flann o brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce, 1977-06-30 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique. |
| two in one flann o brien: Irish Identity and the Literary Revival George Watson, 2023-02-28 First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, J. M. Synge, and Sean O’Casey, documents the complex spectrum of political, social and other pressures that helped fashion modern Ireland. At least three sets of cultural assumptions coexisted in Ireland during the years between 1890 and 1930, -- English, Irish and Anglo-Irish, each united by a common language but divided by considerable tensions and strain. The question of Irish identity forms the central theme of the study, and illustrates how it was a major, even obsessive concern for these writers. Subsidiary and interwoven themes constantly recur. Themes such as the concepts of the peasant and the hero, political nationalism, the meaning of Ireland’s history and the validity of her cultural traditions. Rather than use the literature concerned as merely endorsing evidence for a sociological or political thesis, this study allows its major themes and issues to emerge and develop from direct and close study of the work of the writers. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history. |
| two in one flann o brien: Myles Before Myles Flann O'Brien, 2012 'Myles Before Myles' is a selection of writings from pen of Flann O'Brien. |
| two in one flann o brien: Jerusalem Alan Moore, 2016-09-13 New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal Winner of the Audie Award The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). This “brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious” tale from the gutter is “a massive literary achievement for our time—and maybe for all times simultaneously” (Washington Post). |
| two in one flann o brien: The Islandman Tomás Ó Crohan, 1978 Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again. This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other. |
| two in one flann o brien: Notes from an Apocalypse Mark O'Connell, 2020-04-14 AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization’s collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. What emerges is an absorbing, funny, and deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with what’s ahead. |
| two in one flann o brien: Kavanagh's Weekly Patrick Kavanagh, 1981 |
| two in one flann o brien: Bottom's Dream Arno Schmidt, 2016 I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was, says Bottom. I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it, Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt's rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires. Since its publication in 1970 Zettel's Traum/Bottom's Dream has been regarded as Arno Schimdt's magnum opus, as the definitive work of a titan of postwar German literature. Readers are now invited to explore its verbally provocative landscape in an English translation by John E. Woods. |
| two in one flann o brien: Cannibals Frank Lestringant, 1997-05-05 Frank Lestringant is one of the foremost authorities on European encounters with the New World. This book is a fascinating account of the existence of New World cannibalism and the images it conjured up for Europeans from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Lestringant describes how European voyagers, divines and missionaries encountered the cannibalistic cultures and represented them in their journals and writings. Mapping the origins and evolution of the word 'cannibal', Lestringant describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians. In a wide-ranging discussion he surveys the myth and the reality of the cannibal, and explores the deployment of the image in European literature and legend. Lestringant argues that sixteenth-century travellers and writers turned the figure of the man-eating savage of the Americas into a positive figure, a hero who devoured his defeated enemy in accordance with custom and not in order to satisfy some cruel instinct. Two centuries later the philosophers of the Enlightenment used the figure of the cannibal in their fight against the colonialists and Catholics. But the positive image of the cannibal suffered a reversal at the end of the eighteenth century, becoming a hateful figure and arousing the primitivist dreams of Sade and Flaubert. Written in a lively and accessible style, this engaging book will be welcomed by students and researchers in a wide range of discipines - early modern history, European literature, anthropology and religious studies - as well as anyone interested in the history of cannibalism. |
| two in one flann o brien: Dead as Doornails Anthony Cronin, 1999 In this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile. |
| two in one flann o brien: Ireland Through the Looking-glass Carol Taaffe, 2008 This book investigates how Irish cultural debate informed O'Nolan's early fiction and journalism, in both Irish and English. This is the first thorough assessment of his work in its Irish context, arguing that his self-reflexive comic writing betrays a crisis of literary identity that is rooted in the cultural dynamics of post-Independence Ireland. The book demonstrates in detail what O'Nolan's varying blend of parody, satire and surreal humour owed to the peculiar cultural climate of the mid-twentieth-century Ireland. By exploring the links between comedy and culture, it exposes the curiously ambivalent response to the culture of the new state, and particularly to the position of the writer within it.--BOOK JACKET. |
| two in one flann o brien: Myles Away from Dublin Flann O'Brien, 2012 Flann O'Brien wrote for the provincial National and Leinster Times, adopting the persona of George Knowall, the quizzical and endlessly enquiring country cousin of the metropolitan Myles of Dublin: it is these pieces that are collected in this volume. |
| two in one flann o brien: Irish Modernisms Paul Fagan, John Greaney, Tamara Radak, 2021-10-21 Focusing on previously unexplored theoretical gaps, limitations, and fresh avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism, this book interrogates marginalised and neglected figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism's responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, this book uses diverse paradigms including weak theory, biopolitics, posthumanism, and the nonhuman turn, to rethink Irish modernism's organising themes: nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death, mourning. At the same time, cutting-edge work from queer theory and gender studies draws urgent attention to the too often marginalised importance of women's writing and queer expression to the Irish avant-garde. Foregrounding Irish modernist interfaces between visual, literary, musical, dramatic, cinematic, epistolary and journalistic media, this book focuses on writers, artists and cultural figures such as Hannah Berman, Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Forrest Reid, Mary Davenport O'Neill, Sheila Wingfield, Ethel Colburn Mayne, Edward Martyn, Jane Seosamh Ó Torna, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain. At the same time, this volume asks how consideration of Irish modernism through the diverse genres and movements of these neglected and liminal figures compels us to reconsider the position of the major (Irish) modernists - such as Synge, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, O'Nolan, Beckett, MacGreevy, and Bowen - in this redrawn canon-- |
O’ Brien’s The Poor Mouth - 210.60.110.11
Flann O’Brien’s satirical novel, The Poor Mouth, was published in Gaelic in 1941 and translated into English in 1964, gains wider popularity and fame in Ireland. ... can bring two functions : one is “identification” to others; the other is “signification” to meanings.
Mythologising Sweeney - JSTOR
translated by J.G. O'Keeffe in 1913.1 Flann O'Brien independently translated part of it and incorporated it into At Swim-Two-Birds (1939).2 Seamus Heaney translated it again as Sweeney Astray (1983)3 ... Suibhne too was sprinkled and, in anger, threw two spears; one killed Ronan's acolyte, the other missed Ronan by hitting the holy bell around ...
Fantastic Economies: James Stephens and Flann O’Brien - CORE
Fantastic Economies: Flann O’Brien and James Stephens . R. W. Maslen . In this essay I shall argue that Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman (1940) is (among other things) a radical reimagining of one of the best-loved Irish novels of the twentieth century: James Stephens’s The Crock of Gold (1912). In
The Mexican Pas de Trois of Flann O’Brien, Graham Greene, and …
Pádraig Ó Méalóid investigates the circumstances under which one of the leading novelists of the twentieth century, Graham Greene, came to write a blurb for the back cover of the first edition of . Flann O’Brien’s debut novel . At Swim-Two-Birds, published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1939. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien ...
The Trouble with Being Borrowed: Flann O’Brien’s Characters in …
31 The Trouble with Being Borrowed: Flann O’Brien’s Characters in Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew Pawel Hejmanowski* Abstract: In Mulligan Stew Gilbert Sorrentino takes one step further the concept of the narrator of Flann O’Brien’s legendary At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). O’Brien’s proposition that any fictitious character may be made into an author,
THE OR IG IN S OF FLANN 2¶%5,(1¶ S AT SWIM- TWO-BIRDS - UVa
T HE O RIGINS OF F LANN O ¶BRIEN ¶S A T SWIM-T WO-B IRDS 49 study on its origins. 1 Therefore, my contention is to examine At Swim-Two- %LUGV¶ precedents and to l oo k for connections between the novel an d 2¶%U ieQ¶ s previous production aiming to de monstrate that Flann O ¶Brien had been f or mulating At Swim-
A Mortal Agency: Flann O’Brien’s - Humanities Commons
Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds Todd A. Comer Defiance College In addition to showing how politically oriented Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds remains despite its playful exterior, this essay constitutes an extended reflection on issues of power and agency within the postcolonial Irish context. It demonstrates that Irish iden-
The Mexican Pas de Trois of Flann O’Brien, Graham Greene, and …
Pádraig Ó Méalóid investigates the circumstances under which one of the leading novelists of the twentieth century, Graham Greene, came to write a blurb for the back cover of the first edition of . Flann O’Brien’s debut novel . At Swim-Two-Birds, published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1939. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien ...
The Craft of Seeming Pedestrian: Flann O'Brien's the Hard Life
1. See, for example, Anthony Burgess, "Misterpiece," review of The Hard Life, by Flann O'Brien, Yorkshire Post, 16 Nov. 1961, and W. L. Webb, "Flann O'Brien'sMisterpiece," review of The Hard Life, by Flann O'Brien, Manchester Guardian, 17 Nov. 1961. 2. See, for example, Anne Clissmann, Flann O'Brien: A Critical Introduction to His Writings (New
Intertextual Re-creation in Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys
Swim-Two-Birds (1939), the famous novel by Flann O’Brien. This title highlights the gap between the text it refers to and the one it announces, thereby establishing a connection between the two. By choosing At Swim, Two Boys as the title of his novel, O’Neill anchors himself in O’Brien’s filiation, as is confirmed
Flann O Brien Problems With Authority - wclc2018.iaslc.org
The two things produce remarkable results.” —The Atlantic “The ... The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien,2019-11-12 One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel by “a spectacularly gifted comic writer” (Newsweek). The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist
‘better in his grave than in that bed’: The Construction of Rest in ...
upon by O’Brien and reproduced within the text. Finally, I consider the historical context of fatigue research, conducted in relation to labour disputes and the capitalist ideology of productivity, as well as the uses of fatigue and sleep as tools of punishment. 4 O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds,146. 5 Maebhong,L. Assembling Flann O’Brien
Flann O'Brien - Unconscious Pataphysician
here, including the will to comic disruption that is one of the principal sources of pataphysical energy, the equivalent and literal-minded treatment of unreal (fictional) worlds and the savage lampooning of the pretensions of empirical science. Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, Brother Barnabus, Count O'Blather, John
Flann O’Brien and the Question of National Identity
S. Grgas, Flann O’Brien and the Question of... - SRAZ XLIX, 141-156 (2004) Stipe Grgas ... of two mutually contradictory positions. On the one hand in some quarters ... One must avoid analyzing nationalism in the singular, in the abstract, and …
BETWEEN TWO LITERARY TRADITIONS - THE WRITINGS OF FLANN O’BRIEN
sly neglected as one thing is certain - it is not because his works lack artistic merits. There are a number of reasons for this critical silence. In the first place, ... 8 All quotations from At Swim-Two-Birds come from Flann O’Brien At Swim-Two-Birds (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981), p. 9. 9 According to Vivian Mercier, Modern Irish ...
Two In One Flann O Brien (2024) - oldshop.whitney.org
Two In One Flann O Brien The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien,1974 With the publication of The Third Policeman Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O Brien s fiction back in print At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill,2002 Two young men Jim the naive scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper and Doyler a rough working boy struggle with issues of political ...
Dublin’s dadaist: Brian O’Nolan, the European avant- garde and Irish ...
O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen, George Knowall or under one of many other guises, now occupies a central position in twentieth-century Irish ... CN Flann O’Brien, The Complete Novels: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth, The Hard ... L Flann O’Brien, The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien, ed. by ...
Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres
At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, and Thirst, ... from one end of the year to the other.’ Mr O counters that it is not with his nose but ... perceive Flann O’Brien’s novels to be permeated with the atmospheres of post-civil war Ireland, the Second World War, or nuclear anxiety. 14. Myles himself writes that he
Measuring Joycean Influences on Flann O’Brien - ResearchGate
Keywords: Stylometry; James Joyce; Flann O’Brien 1 Two Irish Birds O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds, ... analyses compare the style of one or multiple texts against that of one test text, broken
Intertextuality and Parody of Law in The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien:
in The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien: a Literary and a Linguistic Reading DOI 10.1515/pol-2016-0023 Abstract: This essay aims to provide a dual reading of Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman: a literary one, centred on the multifarious references to famous works by authors such as Sterne, Gide, Dostoevsky and Kafka, and a linguistic
Review of The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
Review of The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien . It is extremely difficult to write about The Third Policeman (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005) by Flann O’Brien without giving too much away. This is indeed the problem of the excellent introduction by Denis Donoghue and …
Two In One Flann O Brien (2024) - web.floridamedicalclinic.com
Two In One Flann O Brien (2024) Kevin Barry Ireland Through the Looking-glass Carol Taaffe,2008 This book investigates how Irish cultural debate informed O'Nolan's early fiction and journalism, in both Irish and English. This is the first thorough assessment of his work in its Irish
Fionn and Suibhne in 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - JSTOR
in 'At Swim-Two-Birds'1 by Cathal G. 6 Hainle That Flann O'Brien made extensive use of earlier Irish literature in At Swim-Two-Birds2 is a well-known and widely appreciated fact. What I have read of the critical literature, however, does not lead me to believe that the nature of that material and his handling of
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences …
Swim-Two-Birds captivates and invites the reader to a game of hide and seek between fact and fiction, realistic pointers and sham, since ”a satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham” (O’Brien 1961:25) abandoning the readers at the borderline between meaningful and meaningless, in an uncomfortable position, without
Flann O’Brien - rubenborg.huji.ac.il
xii Flann O’Brien–Problems with Authority Jurisfiction: James Joyce’s Nonfiction Writings (forthcoming with Palgrave). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Irish Studies Review, Joyce Studies Annual and Society and Animals, and she is the guest editor of a special issue of Humanities on Joyce, animals and the nonhuman. She is currently working
Two In One Flann O Brien (2022) - oldstore.motogp
Two In One Flann O Brien 3 3 more complex ideological positions tested in his writing. Employing perspectives from genetic criticism and cultural materialism to post-modernism and deconstruction, the essays gathered in this volume address with new critical rigor
Report - Open Library
abandoned ‘Chapter One.’ Paul Fagan then gave a second paper on ‘Wasting Timelessness in Lewis Carroll and Flann O’Brien,’ focussing on alternative temporalities in two ‘permeable worlds’ Wonderland, where it is ‘always 6 o’clock’ and The Parish, where it is ‘always five o’ clock in the afternoon.’ Contrasting ancient
The Parish Review Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies
24 Jan 2021 · The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 4.2. Spring 2020) 2 We worry about the trustworthiness of confessions because the speech-act that begins with the words ‘I confess’ seems to be marked by contradictory intentions and subject to contradictory uses by those receiving this most personal of utterances.
Joanna Stolarek Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and …
4 Similarly to the American writer, Flann O’Brien’s works abound with Christian concerns and issues. As for his texts, one cannot fail to notice the impact of Catholicism
HIGH ANXIETY: FLANN O'BRIEN'S PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
HIGH ANXIETY: FLANN O'BRIEN'S PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST THOMAS B. O'GRADY "James Joyce was an artist. He has said so himself." Thus begins "A Bash in the Tunnel,"1 Flann O'Brien's most protracted direct commentary on his fellow Dubliner, fellow novelist, fellow Dublin novelist. Musing on the predica?
Two In One Flann O Brien (2023) - oldstore.motogp
Flann O'Brien Two In One Flann O Brien Downloaded from oldstore.motogp.com by guest TAYLOR KAELYN Das Barmen Pan This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings
Title Measuring Joycean influences on Flann O’Brien
Title Measuring Joycean influences on Flann O’Brien Authors O’Sullivan, James;Bazarnik, Katarzyna;Eder, Maciej;Rybicki, Jan Publication date 2023-12-20 ... Swim-Two-Birds. by Flann O’Brien: A Casebook, 1–28 (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004), 3,
HIGH ANXIETY: FLANN O'BRIEN'S PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
HIGH ANXIETY: FLANN O'BRIEN'S PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST THOMAS B. O'GRADY "James Joyce was an artist. He has said so himself." Thus begins "A Bash in the Tunnel,"1 Flann O'Brien's most protracted direct commentary on his fellow Dubliner, fellow novelist, fellow Dublin novelist. Musing on the predica?
The Nonsensical Country of Flann O'Brien - JSTOR
The Nonsensical Country of Hann O'Brien Donald E. Morse Taaffe, Carol. Ireland through the Looking Glass : Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate. Cork: Cork UP, 2008. 274 pages, index. Hopper, Keith. Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist 2nd ed. Cork: Cork UP, 2009. 272 pages, index.
The Parish Review Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies - Open Library
24 Jan 2021 · The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 4.2. Spring 2020) 2 We worry about the trustworthiness of confessions because the speech-act that begins with the words ‘I confess’ seems to be marked by contradictory intentions and subject to contradictory uses by those receiving this most personal of utterances.
Flann O’Brien’s Speculative Fiction
The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 2.1. (Fall 2013) 23 development of natural laws. Here, I will compare the allegory of the Irish writer in O Nolan s essay on Joyce, A Bash in the Tunnel, to an allegory from physics, one written by Albert Einstein to explain the relativity of simultaneity. Although these
Two In One Flann O Brien ? - oldstore.motogp
4 Two In One Flann O Brien 2022-08-04 the name of Flann O'Brien) by testing a number of popular commonplace s about this Irish (post-) Modernist author. Challenging the narrative that Flann O'Brien wrote two good novels and then retired to the inferior medium of journalism (as Myles na gCopaleen), the collection engages with
Flann O'Brien's Creative Betrayal of Joyce - JSTOR
Flann O'Brien s Creative Betrayal of Joyce Brian O'Nolan, who published four novels under the pen name Flann O'Brien, ... Ever since the 1939 publication of At Swim-Two-Birds, two things have remained fairly constant. One is that no reprinting, and very few reviews, of the book have appeared without including the blurb from Joyce: "That's a ...
The Parish Review Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies
Forms of the Fantastic in Flann O’Brien & Philip K. Dick Joseph Brooker Birkbeck, University of London, UK j.brooker@bbk.ac.uk This article develops an insight briefly offered by the American novelist Jonathan Lethem, into an affinity between Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and the science fiction of Philip K. Dick, especially his ...
Comparative Essay Sample: Two Books - 5StarEssays
Let’s compare two well-known English-language novels, “On the road” by ... Jack Kerouac and “The third policeman” by Flann O’Brien, and find out if the ten years gap between publishing affected these authors, or the decade was not enough for significant differences in books’ messages? Jack Kerouac, one of the most prominent ...
“Forego the reality of all the simple things”: On Object-Oriented ...
One year after publishing his first novel At-Swim-Two-Birds in 1939, objects with exothermic reactions simply referred to as bombs took control of the fate of Brian O’Nolan’s manuscript when Longman’s London 1offices were destroyed. O’Nolan, in this article referred to as Flann O’Brien, saw almost no trace of his manuscript until 1960.
Know the One? Insolent Ontology and Mahon's Revisions - JSTOR
Night (1982) and two "interim" collections: Courtyards in Delft (1980) which was subsumed into The Hunt by Night, and Antarctica (1985). ... mind one further example of textual indeterminacy. ... (SP, p. 145) or "Epitaph for Flann O'Brien" (TSP, p. 28), in each of which Mahon's own voice is disguised by a parodic swerve towards the idioms of ...
Simulât Ergo Est: Brian O'Nolans - JSTOR
9. Michael McLoughlin, "At Swim Six Characters or Two Birds in Search of an Author: Fiction, Metafiction and Reality in Pirandello and Flann O'Brien," Yearbook of the Society for Pirandello Stud-ies 12 (1992), 25. 10. Keith Hopper, Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (Cork: Cork University Press, 2009), 93-11 ...
Flann O'Brien's Existentialist Hell - JSTOR
The novel which I believe Flann O'Brien should be most celebrated for is The Third Policeman, a comic and appalling book. It seems the critical commonplace now to link O'Brien's novels (especially At Swim- Two-Birds of 1939 and The Third Policeman, completed in 1940, published posthumously in 1967) with the names of Beckett and Sartre.
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Scribner) R139 - Michiel Heyns
The title, of course, is a nod in the direction of that other celebration of Dublin, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim – Two Birds . But the main correspondences remain Joycean, especially in the figure of Mr Mack, the deluded, pretentious shopkeeper with large ... regarded as one of Joyce’s more tedious exercises in style, it does not improve in the
‘Embarrassing enlightenments’: Continuous Text Play in Flann O’Brien…
1 Flann O’Brien, ‘John Duffy’s Brother,’ in Flann O’Brien, The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien, eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper (Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013), 55–59. 2 Anne Clissmann, Flann O’Brien: A Critical Introduction to His Writings (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1975), 266. 3 Sue Asbee, Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien & Modernism - api.pageplace.de
Flann O’Brien & Modernism/edited by Julian Murphet, Rónán McDonald, and Sascha Morrell. ... two anonymous press readers helped considerably in the tightening and strengthening of the collection as a whole. ... (1911–66) to an Irish-speaking family in Co Tyrone, one of the six counties that would, in 1922, form part of partitioned Northern ...
