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"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
- Guy Davenport
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ZIN Product Number: 10446824
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 200 pages
Edition: 1ST DALKEY
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 156478214X
Release Date: Jan 5, 2000
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The last O'Brien's books to be published and now reissued by Dalkey Archive, The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliant 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 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 the view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped."
| | | | From The Publisher
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, 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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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
Illusions Abound
-- D. Merle, one who appreciates eccentricity, December 22, 1998
DON'T READ THE INTRODUCTION!!!
-- David Aikin-Sneath, a radiant thinker, June 12, 2000
Also Recommended: The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld ; The Mind Map Book ; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ; The Psychology fo Learing Mathematics ; The BrainSmart Leader ; The Art of Napping at Work.
surreal comedy
-- Geoff B., June 17, 2002
Also Recommended: One Note Symphonies by Sean Brijbasi
You could call him Franz O'Brien...
-- NM, aLover of ProseThat Feels like silk, August 3, 2001
Also Recommended: Humor wise, check out Alf MacLochlainn who is truly living inside his own mind. At Swim Two Birds, also by Flann O'Brien. For something newer, similar, but modern and different out of Ireland, try Pat Mc Cabe's Breakfast on Pluto.
one of the greatest books i have ever read
-- paul m quigley, November 28, 1999
Also Recommended: mysteries by knut hamsun. journey to the end of the night by celine. emmanuuelle by emmanuelle arsan. groucho and me by groucho marx. lice by cendrars
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
O'Brien depicts--with wild humor masking ultimate horror--a circular Hell inhabited largely by semihuman bicycles
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