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Title: The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor by Flann O'Brien ISBN: 1-56478-141-0 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Slagger's Bag
Comment: In this inconsequential novella by Flann O'Brien, two orphans of the gormless, Finbarr and Manus, grow up next to their guardian Mr. Collopy's prodigious crock. They chafe under the old man and plot their escape. Manus dreams of cash, Finbarr of auburn hair. As part of their unconventional education, they listen with muffled groans to disputations between Collopy and regular visitor Father Fahrt on subjects theological and heretical. Guy Fawkes a hero for the ages? Aquinas a right chancer? Saints and sinners dangle from their hooks. Though dismissed by critics, this late work never fails to produce a chuckle. Its author certainly lends credence to Fahrt's contention that "a degraded social climate is essential to inspire great men to achievement in the arts," even if that climate is some dark snug a Liffey's width from the Custom House.
Rating: 5
Summary: Laziness as Virtue
Comment: This novel is the anti-bildungsroman. In the typical development/coming-of-age novel, the characters have some great epiphany about life, the universe, God, and everything. O'Brien subverts that, however: the last line reads, "There, everything inside me came forth in a tidal surge of vomit." O'Brien's characters typically don't learn a damn thing about life, continue in their idleness, but somehow come through victorious (or near enough) in the end.
For those of you who have tired of Joyce, this is a more visceral and accurate portrayal of the Irishman in the days leading up to their independence. Well worth it.
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Title: The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien ISBN: 156478214X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Dalkey Archive (Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien ISBN: 1564781720 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Best of Myles (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien ISBN: 1564782158 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature) by Flann O'Brien ISBN: 156478181X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Further Cuttings: From Cruiskeen Lawn (The John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien, Kevin O'Nolan ISBN: 1564782417 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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