Flann O'Brien The Complete Novels

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<i> At Swim-Two-Birds </i>to the piercing realism of <i>The Hard Life</i> and the surreal logic of <i>The Third Policeman. </i>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. 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<i> At Swim-Two-Birds </i>to the piercing realism of <i>The Hard Life</i> and the surreal logic of <i>The Third Policeman. </i>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.