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"Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?"
- Edna O'Brien
The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the Irish Times. He called them "studies in literary pathology" -- monstrously tall tales that explore the very limits of the shaggy dog story. As one critic wrote, they will accumulate the fantasy to the point of sadism, and then cash home with the flat, desolating pun.
"The Brother" is another of O'Brien's funniest creations. He is the archetypal Dublin man -- an authority on every one of mankind's ills, from the common cold to the court case. Forget the experts, The Brother knows best.
"The best comic writer I can think of."
- S. J. Perelman
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About the Author
Flann O'Brien is the pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan, one of Ireland's great modernists. His novels include At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and The Poor Mouth. He died in Dublin, 1966.
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- PublisherHart-Davis MacGibbon
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0246106433
- ISBN 13 9780246106438
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages156
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THE VARIOUS LIVES OF KEATS AND CHAPMAN & THE BROTHER
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, with dust wrapper. By Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O'Brien). Edited and introduced by Benedict Kiely. Some light thumbing. Gently handled. Pastedowns and free endpapers are very lightly thumbed, so too page edges. Front free endpaper bears the stamp: 'Prudentia Et Honoris Bibliotheca: T. J. McKenna', otherwise this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper lightly thumbed. Some scuff and light scratches front and back. General light discolouration. Spine sunned, this bleeds on to front and back cover otherwise in good condition. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound. Seller Inventory # FIC1855
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