At War (Lannan Selection)
by Flann O'Brien, John Wyse Jackson (Editor)
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This is a collection of writings from the Irish satirist Flann O'Brien, edited from more than 3000 columns which appeared daily in the Irish Times under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen.Tags
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always interesting, stimulating and funny, O'Brien is still fresh today. This is an interesting anthology, though the chapter headings created by the editor sometime jar with this reader and do not necessarily work. After all, the themes of the pieces do not necessarily allow easy classification. That said, this is hardly a major criticism, and the musings of O'Brien still shine despite this.A fine book
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Writer Brian O'Nolan was born on October 5, 1911. He graduated from University College, Dublin. This gifted Irish writer had three identities: Brian O'Nolan, an Irish civil servant and administrator; Myles Copaleen, columnist for the Irish Times, poet and author of An Beal Bocht (The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life, 1941), a satire in show more Gaelic on the Gaelic revival; and Flann O'Brien, playwright and avant-garde comic novelist. His masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), went almost unrecognized in its time. This novel, which plays havoc with the conventional novel form, is about a man writing a book about characters in turn writing about him. O'Brien starts off with three separate openings. The Third Policeman (1967), funny but grim, plunges into the world of the dead, though one is not immediately aware that the protagonist is no longer living. He died on April 1, 1966. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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