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Third Policeman eBook
A Novel
language: english
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Open Road Media, November of 2019 ‧
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SYNOPSIS
One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel by "a spectacularly gifted comic writer" (Newsweek).
The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)—and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robbery—and murder.
From here, this remarkably imaginative dark comedy proceeds into a world of riddles, contradictions, and questions about the nature of eternity as our narrator meets some policemen with an obsession of their own (specifically, bicycles), and engages in an extended conversation with his dead victim—and his own soul, which he nicknames Joe.
By the celebrated Irish author praised by James Joyce as "a real writer, with the true comic spirit," The Third Policeman is an incomparable work of fiction.
"’Tis the odd joke of modern Irish literature—of the three novelists in its holy trinity, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien, the easiest and most accessible of the lot is O’Brien. . . . Flann O’Brien was too much his own man, Ireland’s man, to speak in any but his own tongue." —The Washington Post
The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)—and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robbery—and murder.
From here, this remarkably imaginative dark comedy proceeds into a world of riddles, contradictions, and questions about the nature of eternity as our narrator meets some policemen with an obsession of their own (specifically, bicycles), and engages in an extended conversation with his dead victim—and his own soul, which he nicknames Joe.
By the celebrated Irish author praised by James Joyce as "a real writer, with the true comic spirit," The Third Policeman is an incomparable work of fiction.
"’Tis the odd joke of modern Irish literature—of the three novelists in its holy trinity, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien, the easiest and most accessible of the lot is O’Brien. . . . Flann O’Brien was too much his own man, Ireland’s man, to speak in any but his own tongue." —The Washington Post
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9781504059640 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Media |
| Release Date: | November of 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | eBook |
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| EAN: | 9781504059640 |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Flann O'Brien
Flann O’Brien (1911-1966) é um dos muitos pseudónimos de Brian O’Nolan. Funcionário público, colunista mordaz no Irish Times (sob o pseudónimo Myles na Gopaleen) e um dos mais notáveis escritores que a Irlanda deu à literatura mundial, apenas comparável a James Joyce ou Samuel Beckett. O’Brien publicou o seu primeiro romance, At Swim-two-birds («Uma Caneca de Tinta Irlandesa», Cavalo de Ferro, 2013), em 1939, suscitando desde logo o mais vivo entusiasmo de James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene e Dylan Thomas, entre outros. Apesar da admiração devota dos seus pares, O’Brien foi em vida um escritor incompreendido pela crítica e desconhecido pela generalidade dos leitores: o seu segundo romance, O Terceiro Polícia (Cavalo de Ferro, 2015) foi recusado pelo seu editor e só seria publicado postumamente, em 1967. Um terceiro livro, The Poor Mouth, foi publicado em gaélico em 1941 e seria seguido, vinte anos mais tarde, por The Hard Life (1961) e The Dalkey Archive (1964). Nas décadas subsequentes à morte do autor, a reputação em torno do nome de O’Brien foi gradualmente crescendo entre a admiração devota dos seus pares e o consenso apaixonado da crítica e do publico-leitor, atingindo hoje em dia verdadeiras proporções de culto. A obra deste importante escritor encontrava-se inédita em Portugal.
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