Apr 2, 2009 |
Flann O’Brien, The Dalkey Archive
A post by Mangan.
Flann O’Brien, The Workman’s Friend Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan) was a contemporary of Joyce,...
Presented below is the googlebooks link for Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive. I was planning on typing out a passage as proof of it’s excellence, but I simply couldn’t pick. Click the link, scroll to any page you please, then read it.
Here is the dedication:
I dedicate these pages
to my Gardian Angel,
impressing upon him
that I’m only fooling
and warning him
to see to it that
there is no misunderstanding
when I go home.
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Link doesnt seem to take me to a place that I can read .. Hm.
Oh, Flann O’Brien. He is certainly an interesting writer. His style is eloquent, definitely, and his fascination with alcohol is amusing, but overall I am not a fan. His style manipulates the reader to an extreme extent, but since I have not read the Dalkey Archive, I may be wrong in this case. ‘At Swim Two-Birds’ however, I think illustrates my point exactly.
And as much as Mangman or a certain Prof. O’Fallon may admire him, I an not a fan of Mr. O’Brien, although maybe when I am not reading detective novels I may find time to read more.
Yes, “Two Birds” is seemingly an exercise in “fucking with you.” Definitely check out anything else by him.