O'Brien Omnibus

Flann O'Brien

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Publisher:: Random House UK Ltd, 09/2007
Binding:: Leinen, ,
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9781841593098
Item number:: 7291719
Copyright-Jahr:: 2007
Weight:: 838 g
Format:: 212 x 139 mm
Thickness:: 48 mm
Release date:: 21.9.2007
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Short description

Containing the five Flann O'Brien novels: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Dalkey Archive

Description

In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and the surreal logic of The Third Policeman. This is a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search formethods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. This is recognizably the Ireland of Joyce and Beckett - rowdy, high-spirited, by turns sensual and and cerebral -transformed by O'Brien's unique vision.

Blurb

Omnibus edition of five novels by this great Irish comic writer.

Biography

Flann O'Brien, geboren am 5. Oktober 1911 als Brian O'Nolan in Strabane/County Tyrone, studierte Gälisch, klassische Philologie und Deutsch in Dublin und Köln und wirkte von 1937 bis 1953 als Ministerialbeamter. 1939 begann er mit "Auf Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel" seine Karriere als Schriftsteller, ab 1940 schrieb er 26 Jahre lang als Myles nag Copaleen (Myles von den Pferdchen) täglich seine "Trost-und Rat"-Kolumne in der Irish Times. Auf sein Hauptwerk folgten noch weitere Romane und Erzählungen, aber literarische Anerkennung wurde ihm erst posthum zuteil. Er starb am 1. April 1966 in Dublin.