The third policeman : a novel

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The third policeman : a novel

by Flann O'Brien ; with an introduction by Denis Donoghue

(John F. Byrne Irish literature series)

Dalkey Archive Press, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii)

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内容説明

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 murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe, " he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him. The last of O’Brien’s novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O’Brien’s other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, and The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland’s great comic geniuses.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA68982453
  • ISBN
    • 156478214X
  • LCCN
    98052437
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Normal, IL
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 200 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
  • 分類
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