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Third Policeman

By Flann O'Brien

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Third Policeman

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One of the most unusual novels in the English language, comparable only to Alice in Wonderland as an allegory of the absurd. Within its convoluted and perplexing boundaries you will find: a murder thriller in which the murderer is haunted both by his victim (a man who never says yes) and by his own soul whom he names Joe and with whom he forms a solicitous friendship; a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force whose three remarkable members are obsessed by the atomic structure of their bicycles; a surrealistic vision of eternity in which paradise is entered in a lift and is powered by omnium — the stuff of life; a tender, brief, erotic, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle; an extraordinary commentary (in annotations) on the life work of a metaphysical philosopher called de Selby who believed among other wonders that the night was an accretion of black sooty substances in the atmosphere.

O'Brien exploits his unique flair for wildly funny dialogue to tell a chilling, macabre fable of unending guilt. "Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him," wrote the Observer, "James Joyce might have been envious."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
1983-11-01
Publication Date:
1983-11-01
Publisher:
HarperCollins Distribution Services
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0246122749
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