The Dalkey Archive

Name: The Dalkey Archive
Author: Flann O'Brien

by Flann O'Brien

Absurdist farce of James Joyce emerging alive in modern Dublin Ireland

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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.

More by Flann O'Brien

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
An Béal BochtNovella satire of Irish village life written in archaic Irish language