Flann O'Brien’s Followers (817)
Flann O'Brien
Born
in Strabane, The United Kingdom
October 05, 1911
Died
April 01, 1966
Genre
Influences
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The Third Policeman
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published
1967
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135 editions
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At Swim-Two-Birds
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published
1939
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2 editions
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The Poor Mouth
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published
1941
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64 editions
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The Dalkey Archive
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published
1964
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67 editions
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The Hard Life
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published
1961
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14 editions
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The Complete Novels
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published
2007
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7 editions
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The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien
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published
2013
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3 editions
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The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother
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published
1976
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15 editions
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Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn
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published
1976
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9 editions
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At War
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published
1999
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10 editions
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“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― The Third Policeman
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― The Third Policeman
Polls
December 2017 New School Read
The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, 255 pages
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 468 pages
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 1902, 224 pages
My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pages
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981, 647 pages
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989, 637 pages
I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pages
Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 1994, 437 pages
So Big by Edna Ferber, 1924, 376 pages
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 1971, 569 pages
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 1967, 200 pages
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