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Zusatztext "O'Brien is always worth investigation by the converted, the curious, and the endemically lighthearted." Informationen zum Autor Flann O’Brien was one of several pseudonyms of Brian O’Nolan (1911-1966), who is considered along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett to be one of the greatest Irish writers of the twentieth century. His novels include At Swim-Two-Birds , The Poor Mouth , The Third Policeman , The Hard Life , and The Dalkey Archive . Maebh Long is a Senior Lecturer in the English Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on Brian O’Nolan/Flann O’Brien, and is the author of Assembling Flann O’Brien (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), an award-winning monograph of theoretical engagements with O'Nolan's works. Klappentext An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O'Brien at his most cantankerous and intimate. Zusammenfassung An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O’Brien at his most cantankerous and intimate.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Flann O’Brien was one of several pseudonyms of Brian
O’Nolan (1911-1966), who is considered along with James Joyce and
Samuel Beckett to be one of the greatest Irish writers of the twentieth
century. His novels include
At Swim-Two-Birds,
The Poor Mouth,
The Third Policeman,
The Hard Life, and
The Dalkey Archive.
Maebh Long is a Senior Lecturer in the English
Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on
Brian O’Nolan/Flann O’Brien, and is the author of
Assembling Flann O’Brien (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), an award-winning monograph of theoretical engagements with O'Nolan's works.
