A definitive compilation of novels by the acclaimed twentieth-century Irish author features the acclaimed At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel about a man writing a novel and the characters who revolt against their author, as well as The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive.[...]

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 conversatio[...]

"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 [...]

O?Brien var inte bara en nyskapande romanförfattare. Generationer av dublinbor kände honom främst under pseudonymen Myles na gCopaleen, giftig krönikör i Irish Times. Här utges ett urval av kåserierna i översättning och med inledning av Magnus Hedlund och Erik Andersson.[...]

Hailed as "the best comic fantasy since Tristram Shandy" upon its publication in 1964, The Dalkey Archive is Flann O'Brien's fifth and final novel; or rather (as O'Brien wrote to his editor), "The book is not meant to be a novel or anything of the kind but a study in derision, various writers with[...]

Like The Best of Myles and Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn (both available from Dalkey Archive Press), At War is a collection of Flann O'Brien's columns written for the Irish Times> under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. Taken from the war years of 1940-45, these writings provide plenty of [...]

An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O'Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presen[...]

Im Dublin des beginnenden zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts spielend, erzählt der Roman Das harte Leben von allerlei Verkommenheiten, angefangen bei Alkoholismus und Arbeitslosigkeit bis hin zu stoffwechselbedingten Körperfunktionen und ordnungswidrigem Geschlechtsverkehr. Doch auch der Heilige Stuhl, die [...]