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"Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman was written in 1940 but his publishers rejected it for being 'too fantastic'. Since its posthumous release in 1967 it has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). In this first novel O'Brien had confronted two towering traditions: the jaded legacy of Yeats' Celtic Twilight and the problematic complexities of Joyce's modernism. With The Third Policeman O'Brien forges a unique synthesis between these two traditions, and the paraliterary path he pursues marks the historical…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2011Cork University Press · 290 pages · 9781859184875
- Other · English · 2009Cork University Press · 290 pages · 9781859184479
- Other · English · 1995Cork University Press · 292 pages · 9781859180419
Criticism and interpretationEnglish Experimental fictionExperimental fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismIn literaturePostmodernism (Literature)Ireland, in literatureO'brien, flann, 1911-1966