Flann O'Brien
O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) was the supreme Irish comic novelist after Joyce, whose At Swim-Two-Birds is a dazzlingly inventive metafictional comedy. The Third Policeman, published posthumously, is a masterpiece of existential absurdism.
Works
- At Swim-Two-BirdsExperimental novel layering multiple narratives and Irish literary traditions
- The Third PolicemanAbsurdist novel of man investigating mysterious death in Irish provincial town
- The Hard LifeComic novel of orphaned boys navigating poverty and petty crime in Dublin
- The Dalkey ArchiveAbsurdist farce of James Joyce emerging alive in modern Dublin Ireland
- An Béal BochtNovella satire of Irish village life written in archaic Irish language