Beschreibung:
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.
A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, 'The Third Policeman' is unique in the English language.
A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, 'The Third Policeman' is unique in the English language.