The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien

Flann O'Brien, Maebh Long

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Dalkey Archive Press
07 August 2018

Diaries, letters & journals; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O’Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented works to the reading public under a variety of pseudonyms. Spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O’Nolan, or O’Brien, or Myles Na gCopaleen—or whatever his name may be—at his most cantankerous and most intimate.

By: Flann O'Brien
Edited by: Maebh Long
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781628971835
ISBN 10: 1628971835
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 07 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. 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.

Reviews for The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien

'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. --Washington Post O'Brien is always worth investigation by the converted, the curious, and the endemically lighthearted. --Kirkus Reviews O'Brien was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century . . . --Boston Globe When the layers are peeled away, they reveal an imaginative comic genius with a genuine gift for language. --Publishers Weekly Wit, humor, satire, the exact fall of a Dublin syllable, the ear for the local turn, the flight of fancy that can spin into a Dublin joke or a Limerick limerick--all these are his. --New York Times A real writer, with the true comic spirit. --James Joyce Flann O'Brien is unquestionably a major author. His work, like that of Joyce, is so layered as to be almost Dante-esque. . . . Joyce and Flann O'Brien assault your brain with words, style, magic, madness, and unlimited invention. --Anthony Burgess